Hi, Barb (@bjk3)

I’ve been deviled by this question of shoes for the longest time: Do I wear them (indoors, I mean LOL ), or don’t I? That I don’t wear them around the house (right now, I’m in my non-slip socks, but no shoes) probably has more to do with my not having a great sensation of numbness in my feet. I knew my feet were slightly “odd” (in feeling the ground), but I’d always chalked that up to decades of long-distance running: all that running had “toughened” my feet, that’s all. I had no idea I’d lost sensation until I had my EMG in the summer of ’22 and was told I’d considerable numbness. What I’d figured was “toughness” was “numbness,” at least to some degree. Will my numbness grow more numb (numb-er? LOL ), who’s to say? For now, being reasonably comfortable going about in only my non-slip socks – especially on my partner’s hardwood floors – is working: wobbly? Yes! But no pain, no icy feeling in my feet – and most importantly, no falls!

Have a grand day today, Barb. I’ll see you around the Connect campus!

Ray (@ray666)