Oh no guys help!!! (boots)

Dang guys!!!! :cry: I's have a problem. I've got a bolt in my foot now in my navicular bone. For you non bone folks that's a VERY important bone and the "big toe" bone rests on it. I'm a month out of my surgery on it and I decided to put it in its home, my boot. I stood in it with one foot and felt my new bolt was very painful inside of it :cry: I'm super sad about this. Is there ANY way I can get custom boots to integrate my bone kabob?

IceGhost wrote:Dang guys!!!!

Any ideas, anyone??????

Go find a decent bootfitter, who can either:

Raise the footbed level around the painful area, leaving the bone unpressurised, or

Lower the footbed to make more room, or

Blow the boot shell to make more room for the painful area.

Or summat I've not thought of, cause I'm not a bootfitter :D

Not sure custom boots are needed. Just get your boots fitted to your feet!

Definately follow Bandits advise. I would wait until next October or as soon as the stores set up for the winter season. It's quiet then and the bootfitters will be happier to mess around with a boot they haven't sold. Also your foot is bound to change a bit in the mean time as bone grows and swelling subsides.

Oh and take it easy next season )

Trencher

Thanks hun

I would make the starting point as going back to the surgeon, explain the issue, and look for an expectation of how the foot repair is likely to go.

Then with the surgeons response, go early to a couple of boot specialists. Give them time to think through the problem, and that you will be back to them in October.

You then have to hope, as we all do, that the repair goes OK in time.

I haven't any bolts, but three years ago I did put a big diamond blade angle cutter through the tendon that operates the big toe. The doctor stitched the two ends together, then stitched the skin over.

I cut a slot in piece of carpet, and fixed this to the underside of the roof of the innersole. Because I use rear entry boots, this allowed my foot, complete with it's new lump, to slide into the boot.

Good luck.

Dave Mac wrote:
I cut a slot in piece of carpet, and fixed this to the underside of the roof of the innersole. Because I use rear entry boots, this allowed my foot, complete with it's new lump, to slide into the boot.

Good luck.

Is that a left over from the famous Austrian carpet or do people need Scottish carpet for this purpose ? :lol:


Trencher

aaahh, that old horse, the carpet. priceless :thumbup:

dave mac, is there anything you haven't done to yourself? do you set alarms off at airports?