Thursday, December 20, 2012

"Off with her toes!"

To my female readers: How much do you love wearing high heels? Enough to turn to surgeons to shorten toes, or even cut off pinky toes?

According to the American Podiatric Medical Association, eighty-seven percent of women have had foot problems from wearing uncomfortable or ill-fitting shoes, like high-heels. But while some give-up on the problematic footwear, others love wearing them so much they will appeal to surgical procedures such as shortening toes, receiving foot injections and even completely cutting off pinky toes in order to make walking in them bearable. “Unless you’ve been there, and you can’t find shoes, and you’re in pain, don’t judge,” Susan Deming, a patient who recently had one of her toes shortened, told Fox News. “I was having calluses, and just, all sorts of problems with my left foot. And there finally was a solution. There’s never been a solution before.” Some of Susan’s toes were longer than the others, making her left foot an entire size longer than her right foot, so she cut off about a centimeter off her second toe. “I’ve never felt this good about something I’ve done,” she said. “If it’s vain, it’s vain.”

Read more at http://www.odditycentral.com/#owxxWoUw5CwqLEkR.99

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