Alternate title: Why do I post when I’ve been drinking? I get even more mundane.
I have rather dry heels and they’re all cracked 'n stuff. Normally, they look kinda like shattered safety glass, in that it’s a whole buncha little weird shapes, but it doesn’t bust apart. However, on my right heel, several of the cracks managed to align and now the crack is about an inch and a half long, and there’s bare flesh below, and it kinda hurts.
Last night, I soaked my feet in hot water and then took a metal skin grater (kinda like a cheese grater, only smaller) to it, and filed a good chunk of it down. But there’s still quite a bit left. I put high-intensity moisturing stuff on them a few times last night and today and will file down a little more tomorrow.
It shrinks my liver, doesn’t it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I’m above the ordinary. I’m competent. I’m walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I’m one of the great ones. I’m Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I’m Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I’m Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I’m John Barrymore before movies got him by the throat. I’m Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of them. I’m William Shakespeare. And out there it’s not Third Avenue any longer, it’s the Nile. Nat, it’s the Nile and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra.
I have rather dry heels and they’re all cracked 'n stuff. Normally, they look kinda like shattered safety glass, in that it’s a whole buncha little weird shapes, but it doesn’t bust apart. However, on my right heel, several of the cracks managed to align and now the crack is about an inch and a half long, and there’s bare flesh below, and it kinda hurts.
Last night, I soaked my feet in hot water and then took a metal skin grater (kinda like a cheese grater, only smaller) to it, and filed a good chunk of it down. But there’s still quite a bit left. I put high-intensity moisturing stuff on them a few times last night and today and will file down a little more tomorrow.
But it’s sore. **
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I get that on my hands, due to work.
Never tried a skin grater, but loads of moisturiser helps a lot.
They have stuff called “crack creme” that supposedly works really well for this.
In the meantime, while it’s sore, they sell gel heel cups to put in your shoes to make walking more comfortable until your heels are healed…
That sounds really strange…
