Shooooooes! Wail!

I have "Morton's Toe".  I think my feet look normal and that people without Morton's Toe have bizarre looking angular feet with giant long halluces and tiny regular toes.  Apparently about 20% of humans have this 'mutation'. It was considered a sign of beauty by the ancient Greeks.  I share Morton's Toe with the statue of liberty. I have this suspicion that she has less trouble with her knees and hips due to overpronation, and shoes that can never fit properly. Ugh...  if 20% of people have this foot, why is it so hard to find shoes that fit properly. I love shoes, so what's the deal with this? I wear a 7.5 EEE.  But it's damned hard to find nice looking shoes in that size. Especially dress shoes. For a couple of years, round toed shoes were in and I could find shoes that fit. Then the style went away... my two pairs of wonderful Austen's wore out and since they were made of cheap vinyl instead of real leather, they shoe man could not repair them. any more. Please have round toed shoes come back in again. I need another pair of nice dress shoes that fit.

 
My favorite shoes ever... Mudd Austen. I need a pair of brown and a pair of black in size 7.5 Wide. They haven't made it for about 5 years and I miss mine sorely. (Quite literally actually.) These were the most comfortable dress shoe I ever had. Perfect heel height, perfect width, didn't bend my hallux in (too much... Morton's Toe you know.) didn't press on my bunion too much (again... Morton's Toe... almost unavoidable. Worse on the left. Medical insurance still unaffordable (3 years after the "affordable health care act" passed, one year from it being mandatory for me to buy it whether I can afford it or not.) Guess I'll use it to get my feet fixed then, since I won't be able to afford a house, I'll need feet that work right and fit in my shoes since I'll have to be outside in shoes since I won't be able to afford a house! hahaha!) I should have hoarded them when I could still get them.

P.S. Re: my rant about health care. I still hold to the FACT that people who are LUCKY enough to have excellent health care provided through their employers (especially those who have employers who actually pay 100% like one of my roommates) and those who make enough money that they really are NOT burdened by their health insurance costs really have no clue what it's like the rest of us.  My boss tried to provide insurance and the cost nearly shut us down. He had to discontinue it.  Carrying it myself (the quality and coverage with the same copays I had in 1999 before the rates octupled where I worked (only quadrupled once the owner shopped around and chose us a policy that covered about half what our previous policy had, and had 3-4 times the copay costs) and after paying it for six months and having them refuse to pay for a prescription the first time I tried to use it, I canceled to go self pay) would now take about... Wow.. you know, it used to be half my income when I worked for AT&T... and that was with a deductible of about $5000 and I don't know what copays. Now? I can't even find a comparable policy. So just never mind that. It's still not affordable, not unless I take a HUGE deduction, and I mean like $10,000. I have no idea what's going to happy next year.

Anyway, this post was about my feet... and my halluces which are NORMAL. All you people with freaky long Halluces have no idea how much more awesome my wide foot is with it's short stout hallux than yours. I'm just saying.

K... Bedtime.