I think I could handle your bootie.
TEES! I meant bootTEES!
alice, the last thing you should do if you have dry skin, is to antagonise it. So stop scrubbing and peeling and using your pumice stones.
It sounds as if you have localised eczema. You’ve been to a dermatologist, I take it?
Do you drink plenty of water?
Hydrating works from inside out, too, but I guess you know that already.
Oh, the things we go through for love. Alice, dear, as Q.E.D. so wisely suggests, you vastly underestimate the amount of sacrifice the right man can be willing to make for you.
My sweet, dear husband has had to deal with some incredibly disgusting habits from yours truly. (Of course, I’ve had to put up with my fair share too) I’ve got to wear a nightguard when I sleep for teethgrinding, and unfortunately it sometimes falls out. Also, the nightguard makes me drool sometimes. More than once poor hubby’s woken up with a sticky nightguard in his hair ::giggle::
On the other hand, I’ve had to sand his callouses and corns on his feet, so we’re even.
The booties I can handle, as long as you don’t have hairy toes.
btw, I have a friend who takes flax seed oil for dry, cracked hands. Maybe that would help your feets.
would it help if i told you that the sight of my wife in socks makes me uncontrollably horny? she doesn’t even have to be naked (though that’s great too)…if she’s in a pair of regular denim shorts and is wearing plain white socks, she can count on getting some freaky, nasty lovin’.
Naw, Alice. The booty thing wouldn’t bother me for sleeping. During sex it might be less than stimulating, but hey sleeping is sleeping. Honestly, I won’t even notice a woman’s feet.
Now, IANAD, but I will tell you that I had a problem with dry and cracked and bleeding feet as a youth. It turned out to be a fungus problem. You might try some of the anti-fungal creams like desinex or the others.
Apparently, it could be a dietary defficiency. However, every person who says this, when faced with the reality that is my diet, is hard pressed to come up with what that defficiency might be. I eat really healthy.
It’s not fungus. It’s just really, horribly dry skin. I’ve used the saran-wrap route, various medicated creams, etc.
Here’s the thing - my dear old dad has the exact same problem. Has all his life. So did his mom. It’s hereditary, I’m afraid.
I will be in these damn booties until I’m DEAD!
Perhaps I could start wearing hooker boots to bed OVER the booties. That might at least offer some passing apeal…
Originally posted by Fizgig
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Little white cotton anklets…maybe with a ruffle along the hem…alice_in_wonderland…
This could work on many levels, some of them positively kinky, y’know.
Humm.
Well, I suppose I could hunt around and find the baby-doll pajamas from my childhood. The ones with the bulls eye ruffles on the butt…
(Don’t ask me - I just wore them, I didn’t make them).
Well, they’re your feet. But I didn’t believe it was a fungus either. None-the-less, we tried the Dr’s advice and it worked for me.
Well obviously your dad and his mother both got married (unless they were non-traditional), so you have no excuse now! 
(blink… blink…)
Excuse me, what were we just talking about again?
Alice I have a friend on another msg. board who takes large quantities of essential oils every day. She, too, had a dry foot problem and swears that once she started taking the oil capsules her feet are soft as a baby’s.
Good luck.
That’s what I tell people about my baby-doll pajamas now…but people seem a bit put off anyway.
I use my wife’s feet to clean the BBQ grill and sand the bottom of old boats. If they softened up a little, I could use them to rough-up innertubes prior to patching.
You too will find love…
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
Instead of lotion with vitamin E, have you just tried the vitamin straight? Get a few perles, open them and rub the oil directly on your feet.
There are many, many people who would kill to be a hottie from the ankles up. Anyway, in this day and age there has got to be a dry foot support group on the Internet with no end of things to try. Don’t give up hope.
Haj
Just a suggestion…Have you tried Aquanil HC? It cleared up my son’s exzema. But I have to get it on him three times a day. However why the hell don’t you just wear the socks while you’re at work…and then when you’re umm…getting it on leave them off?
I used to use a variable speed disk sander on my feet. The neighbors would come over to watch me in horror, on my front porch. It helped when I moved from New Mexico to the tropics, though.
Sorry, alice, my mom has no memory of what it was, (it’s been 20+ years ago) and I never saw the label on the stuff (it came in a silver tube).
According to Dr. Duke’s
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases probably the best thing for you to try are: Taking doses of Vitamin E over 400 I. U. a day and using a poultice of Peruvian red hibiscus on the area. (If you can’t find Peruvian red hibiscus, you can splash Red Zinger tea on your feet as it contains Peruvian red hibiscus.)