What's happening in Vancouver- No More Smelly Feet!

Havilah's feet became so painful that she couldn't walk. She crawled through the house and eventually used a wheelchair. During the period of time that they were growing increasingly worse, she broke one ankle, went through recovery and then badly sprained the other. This slowed down our diagnosis because we thought that the problem could be just part of the healing process. Yet, after she was totally healed, her feet actually began to hurt worse.

We visited various medical professionals who where not able to help. We finally found a great Podiatrist who seemed to understand. He told her to stop wearing shoes. She also got back to drinking a lot of raw milk and having stock soup and fermented cod liver oil every day.

As advised by the podiatrist, the whole family took off our shoes and got rid of anything that had arch support, heal or toe lift and the standard narrow toe. With the exception of work boots for those times when our lifestyle includes chopping wood and using machinery, shovels etc. When we do wear shoes they are either flip flops or the barefoot style shoes.

Havilah's feet seem to be improving slowly from the damage done wearing shoes that cramped and caused them to form unnaturally when they should have been growing and spreading and becoming strong. She is able to run and jump and is very athletic again. The wheelchair is long gone.

It's been nine months. Our toes are very slowly spreading out. Our feet are getting tough, never smell and don't get sore by the end of the day. I had previously been diagnosed with chronic ankle spraining syndrome. Now my ankles feel strong. Time will tell, but I doubt that they will sprain again. I occasionally step on a stone when running bare foot. In the past, when I wore shoes, that would have turned my ankle. Now my foot moves around it as it comes down and I keep running.
I hope that this helps.
Those are all my sermons and now that I got that off my chest, I can start blogging about the fun stuff.