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taking the average
Oct. 18th, 2012 12:43 pmSo sore these days. Ugh.
My sister D has flat feet. I remember somebody telling me (I think it was my sister herself) that the reason for this was a missing bone somewhere in her arch. Her feet hurt if she stands too long in crappy shoes.
I, on the other hand, have an extra bone in each foot. Right at the top of my arch, where the upper surface of my foot forms a crest so pronounced it's almost a point. It throws off the way my weight is distributed across my feet to concentrate too much of it into my arch so as a result I snap or crack the top bone on a semi-regular basis. Tripping, hyper- or hypo-flexing, even landing too hard when I run or jump will pop it. I had to give up on Tae Kwon Do because of how much it depends on the kicks.
The joke of course, is that I got greedy and stole a bone from my sister.
It doesn't really impact my life all that much to be honest, other than the occasional, "Ow, fuck, not again." It's such a small bone that breaking it is no more than an annoyance. On the Siobhan-adjusted pain scale it doesn't even register. I does mean that I need longer shoelaces than normal people. And it also means that my feet get sore if I stand arund too long in crappy shoes.
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I'm always bitching about my immune system because I catch Every Little Frigging Thing. I think the real problem is that I don't catch colds any more than anybody else, it's just that my immune system is actually OVER active and so it just goes into hysterics every time time it encounters a virus. The plus side to this is that every time I have a test for my blood titres of specific antibodies they read way up there in the badass range even for innoculations I got as a child. On the down side, I have allergies, asthma, and a distinct immune-system-goes-bugfuck stage for even the smallest scratch.
Still, I know I'm the one who got off easy. I do complain sometimes about how often I get sick, but every time I do it I hear myself and I feel like a complete asshole. See my other sister, F, has an immune system so aggressive that it attacks her own organs.
My sister D has flat feet. I remember somebody telling me (I think it was my sister herself) that the reason for this was a missing bone somewhere in her arch. Her feet hurt if she stands too long in crappy shoes.
I, on the other hand, have an extra bone in each foot. Right at the top of my arch, where the upper surface of my foot forms a crest so pronounced it's almost a point. It throws off the way my weight is distributed across my feet to concentrate too much of it into my arch so as a result I snap or crack the top bone on a semi-regular basis. Tripping, hyper- or hypo-flexing, even landing too hard when I run or jump will pop it. I had to give up on Tae Kwon Do because of how much it depends on the kicks.
The joke of course, is that I got greedy and stole a bone from my sister.
It doesn't really impact my life all that much to be honest, other than the occasional, "Ow, fuck, not again." It's such a small bone that breaking it is no more than an annoyance. On the Siobhan-adjusted pain scale it doesn't even register. I does mean that I need longer shoelaces than normal people. And it also means that my feet get sore if I stand arund too long in crappy shoes.
I'm always bitching about my immune system because I catch Every Little Frigging Thing. I think the real problem is that I don't catch colds any more than anybody else, it's just that my immune system is actually OVER active and so it just goes into hysterics every time time it encounters a virus. The plus side to this is that every time I have a test for my blood titres of specific antibodies they read way up there in the badass range even for innoculations I got as a child. On the down side, I have allergies, asthma, and a distinct immune-system-goes-bugfuck stage for even the smallest scratch.
Still, I know I'm the one who got off easy. I do complain sometimes about how often I get sick, but every time I do it I hear myself and I feel like a complete asshole. See my other sister, F, has an immune system so aggressive that it attacks her own organs.