Size Double 9

So to recap my lovely situation, i’m 15 weeks pregnant and I have a terrible case of athlete’s foot that is pretty much ruining my life right now.  I’m in pain, I can’t exercise, and my feet look terrible.  I’ve tried 2 types of medicine.  Neither worked, and the fact that I’m pregnant severely limits the types of medicine I can take.

The fact that I’m pregnant also means that I’m extremely emotional.  I woke up this morning, got into the shower, and immediately began to bawl my eyes out.  I calmed myself down and then started crying again while drying my feet off.   I just feel completely disgusting.  It’s pretty funny the things we take for granted.  They’re just feet, for christ’s sake, but I would give anything right now for them to be healthy and normal and smooth and pretty like they were a few months ago.  I’m wearing flip-flops today, but I have to wear long pants so that you can’t see the big patches of red, raw skin. 

Every day is a blast.  I wear flip-flops in the shower, dry off my feet with a separate towel, then dry them with a hair dryer, apply medicine that doesn’t even work, and then put socks on immediatly so that I can walk around the house without infecting every surface that I step on.  You should try it.  Ha ha

You know you’re desperate when you’ll try anything.  Okay, almost anything.  My husband went to the natural foods store in our town, and one of their suggested athlete’s foot remedies was to wrap chopped garlic in gauze and place it in your shoes.  Can you say NO FUCKING WAY will i do that?  Can you imagine what people at work would say?  “Oh look, here comes ol’ garlic toes.”  I just can’t do that.  I did, however, soak my feet in apple cider vinegar last night.  So painful.  But it dried the hell out of the affected areas.  Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen and it will work. 

I must be married to one of the sweetest men in the world.  He saw how upset I was this morning, so he drove to work at lunchtime to bring me flowers.  I have a wonderful husband and a baby on the way.  I want this to be one of the happiest times of my life.  It’s a shame that something so stupid is affecting me so much.