Comments on: Red Sandals https://livingwithscleroderma.com/red-sandals/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/red-sandals/#comment-3056 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:21:45 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2587#comment-3056 In reply to Vicki Schneider.

Hi Vicki,
Thanks so much for your kind words! I’m glad you enjoy my blog. Readers like you keep me going. A calcium deposit on the bottom of your foot must have been terribly painful. And I’m so sorry to hear that you had to retire with disability from scleroderma. I lost my job more than four years ago due to downsizing, and I have to say, it was a blessing in disguise. I now work for myself, successfully, from home, and it is wonderful to be in charge of my own time. I hope that you are able to make similar discoveries. Take good care of yourself, and, yes, let’s keep up the fight and a search for a cure!

]]> By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/red-sandals/#comment-3055 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:18:19 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2587#comment-3055 In reply to Pat Bizzell.

Thanks, Pat. I often plan outfits with respect to shoes, too, for all the reasons you describe. As for what defines style, yes, spike heels are a painful way to go. I’ve never been able to wear them. But even short heels are nearly impossible, now. I have a pair of dress Na’ot sandals with heels that I can still wear, thank goodness, because they’re stunning, and only wearable because they are designed to place your balance on the heel and not the ball of your foot. But I can’t walk long distances in them. So that’s why my raspberry red sandals are so delightful.

]]> By: Vicki Schneider https://livingwithscleroderma.com/red-sandals/#comment-3054 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:27:48 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2587#comment-3054 Dear Evelyn,
I love reading you weekly blogs and just had to comment after reading this one as it really touched me. I am doing the same thing, getting all my beautiful shoes ready for a few friends/family to select from I too miss my red sandals and my black heels. I had to give them up last summer when I had a calcium deposit removed from bottom of foot. No more heals, they are no longer needed in fact because I had to leave my professional job Jan. 31st of this year and retired with disability at 52 from this crappy disease. I look forward to reading your blog every week. Thank you for writing. Take care and let’s keep fighting this disease!

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/red-sandals/#comment-3053 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:29:12 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=2587#comment-3053 Mazal tov! Every woman should have a pair of red shoes–or sandals. As you know, I share your difficulties with shoes, though due to arthritis and some other problems, and I gave up wearing any kind of sandal years ago, except for rubber flip-flops around the house. Whenever I go anywhere outside the house, the first question I address is, how much walking will I have to do, on what kinds of surfaces? I select the shoes that will help me walk and build the rest of the outfit from the feet up. Some of my shoes are less clunky than others but none of them would ever make the fashion red carpet.

Let me just say here that I think the shoes we ladies are taught to regard as fashionable are really instruments of torture! I have heard that the thousand-dollar spike heels are comfortable, but I’ll never know, and I don’t believe it anyway. How can it be good to wear shoes that are uncomfortable and make it hard to walk, never mind to hurry or run? Yet millions of us do it every day. Just hoping we don’t have to dodge when crossing the street or stand a long time in line anywhere. Let’s just stop the madness!

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