{"id":3982,"date":"2017-08-29T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T01:12:44","slug":"foot-hurts-swollen-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"foot hurts swollen top"},"content":{"rendered":"

My foot started hurting on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It got worse over the weekend, and was really hurting yesterday. \u00a0Yesterday I wore sandals to work, so I knew it couldn’t be my shoes that were the problem. \u00a0Last night, despite taking Aleve all day, it hurt badly, it was hot, and once I took my sandals off, I realized it was quite swollen. \u00a0Berck asked why I was limping around. “Because my foot hurts.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Why?”<\/span><\/div>\n
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“I don’t know!”\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Well, take drugs, ice it, and go to a doctor.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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“What’s a doctor going to do?”<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Tell you to take drugs and ice it.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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I decided to save myself a couple hundred dollars and continue taking Aleve and ice it. \u00a0There hadn’t been any trauma, so I didn’t see how it could be broken. \u00a0I’ve had broken bones, and that’s a very specific type of pain. \u00a0Palpitating didn’t indicate any one area of severe pain. \u00a0While I iced it, I decided to Google “foot”, “hurts” and “swollen”. \u00a0Google suggested adding “top”, and I accepted that, because it did hurt on the top of my foot. \u00a0Google knows everything.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. \u00a0But I have worked in the medical field, and my job as a paralegal in a law firm that does work comp and Social Security disability involves reading lots and lots of medical records. \u00a0I also know that doctors hate it when you try to self-diagnose using WebMD.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But as soon as I hit enter, Google said I had\u00a0\u00a0extensor tendonitis<\/a>\u00a0and directed me to podiatrynetwork.com<\/a>. \u00a0Here’s what it has to say:<\/span><\/div>\n
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“A common area of pain occurs near the\u00a0middle of the top of the foot, generally a bit to the outside of the foot.<\/strong>\u00a0In this area of the foot the tendons that go to the toes can become inflamed. This is called\u00a0extensor tendonitis.<\/a>\u00a0One cause of this condition is excessive tightness of the calf muscle. When the calf muscle is tight it places excessive stress on the tendons on the top of the foot that pull the foot upward and against the tightness of the calf muscles. Wearing a shoe with a one-inch heel will help to take the stress off of the tendons on the top of the foot. Aggressive\u00a0stretching of the calf muscle<\/a>\u00a0is also very helpful. Oral anti-inflammatory medications can help.”
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Wearing heels to cure foot pain seems awfully counterintuitive. I don’t really have a pair of daily heels, or even pumps, so I started stretching my calf. \u00a0And today my foot feels a lot better. \u00a0I haven’t even taken my night Aleve.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The moral of this story is that aging sucks. \u00a0And sometimes Google can tell you the most amazing things.<\/span><\/div>\n
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My foot started hurting on Friday. \u00a0 It got worse over the weekend, and was really hurting yesterday. \u00a0Yesterday I wore sandals to work, so I knew it couldn’t be my shoes that were the problem. \u00a0Last night, despite taking Aleve all day, it hurt badly, it was hot, and once I took my sandals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}