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These Feet Weren't Made for Walking - 20 Going on 80

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It's 2am. I have woken up because my feet are BURNING. I have only got one hour of sleep so far 👍 I have had bad feet for my whole life. Some people have worse problems in their feet than me. I'm lucky we started early to fix mine. For years I have had ever worsening bunions and ever worsening hammertoe. For a long time they didn't hurt but I was like a freak show. It was like marmite, you either really wanted to see them or you really didn't. Either way reactions were always the same...'WOW can you actually not straighten them?' 'Wow they are so weird/gross'... I know... I look at them every day. Naturally we tried to search for solutions. At age 12 I got a surgery performed on my two second toes which had hammertoe from the pressure my bunions were causing. Unfortunately they couldn't operate on the bigger problem until I was at least 21 (which at 12 seemed like forever away and now it's only 4 months away - Time flies when you're havi