joke of all jokes? (possible TMI!)

Happy April Fool's Day!

We're all friends here, right? So: true confession. Most of my life I've had some sort of foot-and/or-toenail fungus thingie happening. I blame growing up in Oregon and wearing soggy shoes most of the year. Anyway, aside from being a minor annoyance, I've never really thought much about it. It never goes away, right?

So, without going into detail, I have a new incentive to get rid of it once and for all. The doctor would like me to go on Lamisil, and recommended getting rid of all my shoes.

Let me repeat that: getting rid of all my shoes.

Why could this not have happened when I was in college and had, like, three pairs of ratty shoes, all of which I hated? I finally grew up and now have a lovely shoe collection, all nicely cared for. You get older, you buy better shoes. As in, more-expensive shoes. Which you intend to keep for many years.

I have to go back in next week for the test results and prescription, and I will clarify this with him. Do I have to get rid of ALL my shoes? All of them? Really? Or can I salvage the ones I only wear rarely, all my pretty dress-up shoes? I'm okay with replacing the ones I wear most often. That would be probably 3-4 pairs, maybe 5. Expensive, but, okay. Worth it. I'm not sure I can get rid of ALL of them. There's got to be an alternative, even if it means doing some sort of treatment before and after wearing them (since I only wear them each a couple times a year).

On the plus side: shoe shopping! (he said he wished he could write me a prescription for Nordstrom's). On the down side: expensive!

Well, this will get me to do some serious shoe-sorting, anyway.

And come this summer, I will have the cutest, prettiest feet EVAR.