Over the past eight years I have had terrible foot, knee and hip problems. This involved taking a lot of pain medicine, getting cortisone shots, seeing physicians, and doing therapy. I finally turned to alternative medicine. The sciatica recurred several times, but was controlled by diet and stretching. Last summer I fell and injured my hamstring. I went through months of therapy, and the therapist damaged both of my knees. The orthopedic surgeon said I needed knee surgery on both knees and gave me more pills.

Over the past eight years, I have worked as a marketing director in the health care field. There have been times when I went to call on a hospital and could hardly get out of the hospital and back to my car. I have taken about every anti-inflammatory there is and some that have been removed from the market. I see a massage therapist on a monthly basis and am usually in pain.

One year ago, my daughter told me about some crazy-looking shoes that a friend of hers sold in Overland Park, Kansas. I finally broke down and checked them out. Crazy was not the word for them. I did some research about the shoes and finally bought a pair of the sandals. My knees were so swollen and my gate was terrible, so I only lasted about two days in the shoes. After several months my husband suggested that I try to wear the “crazy expensive shoes” that I had purchased. I gave myself two weeks to wear them every day. I purchased a pair of clogs for winter, and just last month purchased a pair of tennis shoes, so I can start walking on the treadmill until spring arrives and I can walk outside.

I can now last at least eight hours a day, marketing. I can enjoy the weekends with my husband shopping, site-seeing, or whatever. I am planning on riding my bike on the bike trails in the spring and I am looking at playing golf again. I am down to one Aleve® a day and am hoping to eventually get off of that. I occasionally get brave and try to wear my regular shoes for a short period of time, and then I have to pay the price of pain.

At first everyone laughed and made fun of how high I bounce—-all the “spring” jokes. But now, being able to join in marketing events, walk, be out of most of my pain, and do trade shows for 10 hours and be able to walk out at the end of the day, is wonderful.

I market for your company every day—-to the health care employees. A physicians’ office of 25 employees let me do a luncheon for them because they wanted to find out more about my shoes. People stop me on the street, at trade shows, hospitals, and so forth just to see what my shoes are all about and where they can get them. The younger generation thinks that I am cool, and yesterday at a of meeting of 60 health care professionals, an older couple wanted to know where I got them—-she was 80 years old and was down in her hips and had not been able to walk for a year. I am your walking testimonial that they work. My sciatica has not given me trouble in six or seven months.

I do wish they came in dress shoes!!!

Diana
Lenexa,  KS   USA