Finally Taking Care of Me...

I know I never mentioned it here before, but I have been dealing with pain in my ankle, but only when wearing no shoes or flat shoes since last summer and it has increasingly getting worse as the time went on.  I knew in my heart that I should have gone to see a foot doctor months ago, but being at my old job and the pressure and stress I was under I just didn't do it.  Well, I finally made the appt last week and went this morning.  I just couldn't take the pain I was feeling in the evenings after work when I would take off my heels and walk around in my socks or on the weekends in my sneakers or flat shoes.  I went this morning and they took x-rays and I have calcium deposits on my ankle which causes pain when my foot is flat.  I was given heel lifts for wearing with flat shoes/sneakers and a splint to wear at night (yes, the mornings were bad, my right foot would be so sore that I couldn't wait to get in the shower to run warm water over my ankle) and I have exercises to do once a day.  I can still exercise but when using the treadmill -can't do an incline and when doing weights can't do anything that causes my foot to be flat against the weight.  I am so relieved that it isn't anything worse and that all these things seems very doable for me.  I just can't believe that I let my old job get in the way of my health and that I have made a pack with myself that from now on that will never be the case again.  It hurts when I look back now at the times I would put work in front of what was important for me.  This new job doesn't make me feel like that at all.  Yes, the work is here and there are times when things are hectic, but it doesn't come close to what I was experiencing and feeling at my old job.  I am at a more peaceful existence now and so determine to not EVER let it get that point again...my motto is work to live, not live to work!