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buying shoes
Categories: ouch
Tags: Arthritis
Date: 19 February 2012 13:44:21
Buying shoes
Diary of an accident victim
part 55
7 June 2011
Sorry to bore you all with tales of shopping. But what is a straightforward task for most can become complicated.
The complication is orthopaedic insoles. To help with the pain of an artritic foot I have strange foot distorting devices I wear in my shoes, which makes buying shoes a less than simple task.
Out are the discount shoe shops with rack upon rack of cheap shoes. Out are the shoe selling shelves of supermarkets. Out in fact is any kind of discount.
What I need is a shop where there is individual service, where the staff know how to deal with semi-cripples.
So what can be a difficult task for most people, all those shops, all that choice, becomes a simple one for me. I have the choice of one shop, I won't advertise, but it is the one a lot of parents use for children's shoes because they have all the measuring stuff and different width fittings.
So now I am the owner of a new pair of leather shoes.
(Trainers are easy, any which lace all the way down I can make my own fitting.)
...to be continued.
This was first posted on St Pixels blog on 1 June ’11
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