A Work at Home Mom’s Blog

My back and tailbone have been giving me trouble lately, and I think sitting in this awful chair so much is what’s doing it. But when they start to hurt, I just remind myself that it could be worse.

Every job I’ve had outside the home has required me to be on my feet pretty much constantly. And most of them have had me on concrete or some other type of hard flooring, which makes things infinitely worse. Not only did that make the part of my foot that was injured when I was in high school flare up, it also made the bottoms of both feet hurt very badly.

My feet got in really bad shape when I was working at a factory. Pretty much the whole time I worked there, I had this strange problem with my feet being really painful and tender when I first got out of bed. Sometimes I would barely be able to walk for a half hour, then the pain would gradually subside. But any time I got up from sitting or laying down, they would hurt. A lady I worked with told me that she had a similar problem, and the doctor had diagnosed her with Plantar Fasciitis.

I talked to my doctor at the time about it, and she just gave me some medication to treat depression (which I was having a bout of at the time) and pain. It helped a little, but not that much. I finally just learned to live with it.

I quit having such trouble with my feet when I quit that job. I had two jobs that kept me on my feet all the time after that, and while my feet would hurt after a hard day’s work, it was nothing like it had been at the factory. It had to have been the floors, and possibly the fact that I had to wear steel-toed boots.

Now I don’t have to be on my feet much at all. I could use more exercise, but at least I don’t have to deal with constant foot pain. I know from experience that when your feet hurt, it adversely affects your whole attitude.