Leave it alone, it will fall off by itself.

[commodorified]

My left foot hurts, in some hard-to-pin down fashion which is, nevertheless, slowly getting worse.

My experience of trying to figure out what's wrong with feet suggests that the process is invariably long and frustrating and leads to a recommendation that you tape it up and rest it.

So I think I will just go with that, for now, but argh.

No medical advice, please. The odds of you being right are, frankly, very low, and I don't need more reasons to fret.

Comments

[recessional]

Clearly it is turning into a hoof in anticipation of your final shift to your adult unicorn shape.

All is proceeding according to plan.

[commodorified]

I'm gonna look pretty silly with one hoof and one foot though... Not that I don't look silly now.

[recessional]

Well the other one comes LATER, of course. You wouldn't want to be halfway through the foot-hoof transition on both feet at the same time, would you? ;)

[amorettea]

Sounds like an infestation of podiatry nargles.

[graydon]

"podiatry nargles". I'm going to have to remember that one!

It can go with the teen memory of the grizzled Master Warrant looking at the guy three over and enunciating with menace "They can't fix feet."

I will hope the advancement of medical science renders this pronouncement inapplicable in the present case.

[bethctg]

*shakes fist at your foot*

[st_aurafina]

Ugh, feet are so complicated and so full of tiny bones. Everything breaks so easily down there. I hope you're doing better soon.

[sharpiefan]

Which is ridiculous considering that it's your feet that do all the heavy lifting and long-distance transport type stuff.

Seriously, you'd think feet would be a darn sight more robust than that!

[graydon]

Concrete. Prolonged standing. Increased propensities to not die. Fashionable shoes.

Evolution will probably catch up, but that's no good to the living.

[reginagiraffe]

Not to mention they were originally designed for a *horizontal* animal, not a vertical one. Much more pressure on your feet and none on your hands.

[graydon]

Weelll....

Hominins have been walking upright quite some while now; it's why our feet have got heels, after all. And scansorial ancestors may have been quite upright in posture due to clinging to the trunks of trees, so it's not like a lineage of bears suddenly walked upright and became an obligate biped, there's a history there to exapt.

I mean, yeah, plantigrade graviportal cursorial obligate biped is just weird, we're the only one, but feet are way ahead of, say, knees, sinuses, and lower backs on the "adapting to being an upright biped" curve.

[commodorified]

Welp. It's probably an offshoot of the borked back and hip, so. Not definitely, but probably.

All I can say with certainty at this time is that going back to all-fours is not a useful option.

[graydon]

Can't revert to quadrapediality and a hover-chair would terrify the cats....

That's a very plausible hypothesis. Patterns of motion compensation can go strangely awful in all too many ways.

Read an article and then paper last year by someone who has the uneviable job of pointing out that modern serious dance training emphasises the outer two layers of three layers of abdominal muscles, and that just because someone has washboard abs doesn't mean they've got the right kind of core strength to keep those horrible compensatory hip overstrain pains from happening. One of the key takeaways was that the whole subject -- everything in the body is connected, so that means it's all connected to pain -- is Poorly Understood. Which isn't helpful in any immediate sense.

[commodorified]

I anticipate Pilates in my near future, but that doesn't make today appreciably easier to handle. Today I just want to take a sharp knife to the fucker.

[graydon]

Speaking as someone who has got to the "nerves reconnecting? I really, really hope that's nerves reconnecting..." stage with a gum graft, given in, and taken the "no more work today" painkillers around lunchtime, I am most exceedingly sympathetic.

Especially since foot pain isn't the kind of thing where it necessarily will relax or where it's certainly better if you do relax, either. Had a few too-much-bicycle cases where "oh thank prime my foot's finally relaxing" was immediately followed by quads going "right, foot's done, OUR TURN."

Hope it gets better just as soon as may be.

[commodorified]

You're icing? Mouths swell like a butterfucker, but often not til the next day when the icing window is past.

[graydon]

Iced at the time, and took my ibuprofen on schedule.

This is day eight. Stitches out in another six.

Graft is way up at the back, nothing much to attach to, that's the side where a lot of bone came out with the wisdom tooth lo these many years ago. So actually knitting in at all is an excellent result. And it's at the "itch? pain? itch? pain? it's entirely annoying, whatever it is..." stage. Which is actually good, because that's indicative of healing.

But something not at all the kin of fun.

[commodorified]

Ohhh, gotcha.

I am not going to say it is for sure nerve regrowth, but that sounds like what my face felt like after my Mom's cat laid it open, when the nerve was growing back. Later there are weird little zings of pain that go away fast.

[mmegaera]

Seems like a sensible course of action to me...

[commodorified]

RICE is nice...