Challenge - Day 19 (A Plastic Twist!)

Time restricted eating has been pretty easy.  Once I busted through the first couple days of my body adjusting, the rest was pretty smooth sailing.  My fitness thing has hit some walls, but I will address that later.

No new plastic has been the easiest part of all of this.  Sure it has cut back on some things I like, simple things such as the bananas and avocados that I keep mentioning, but overall it isn’t too challenging at all.  I do know I will be bringing plastic once this is all done obviously, but I will address that at the end of my challenge.  I was, however, forced into breaking my no-plastic thing for an unavoidable reason:  

My Foot!

Something strange has been happening with the top of my right foot.  It was like a little burn or something that kind of lingered.  Nothing noticeable happened to kick it off.  I didn't hit it on anything, didn't get bit by a spider or whatever, no scratches, or burns...no nothin'!  It just appeared from outta nowhere.  It would always start healing itself up by the end of my weekend as I walk around barefoot all weekend.  It’s when I would go back to work and have to put on footwear again that the healing it was doing would become undone.  

I hate wearing things on my feet as it is.  I also have a hard time reaching my feet for years now because of the chaos in my spine and pelvis.  Putting on socks and shoes is a real challenge for me.  I am a flip flop kinda guy anyway though…even in the snow.  I wear those fuckers year ‘round!  Yes, I am a beach guy, but they are also comfortable, and easy on, easy off to wear too.

Luckily, I get to wear flip flops at work.  I have them kicked off and go barefoot in my office for the most part unless I have to get up and answer the door or leave the office.  I like that.  Even still, having to wear them that much would always hinder the progression of the healing of the little spot on the top of my foot that didn’t wanna seem to heal properly!

At first I was using a herbal salve that worked great.  Soon it didn’t really have any affect.  The wound got a bit bigger and felt like a healing scab, so I started putting on some hydrogen peroxide that I had.  That seemed to be helping too for a bit.  On Friday though, when I was floating in the water I noticed that it had just exploded in size.

The wound was indented like a little crater, and was pretty symmetrical.  It seemed to be expanding outward from the middle.  After seeing it like that in that angle of the sun with the water on it, I knew something was up that had to get checked out, so I went to the hospital yesterday.  

Of course the doctor had never seen that kind of wound before.  I am used to that.  I’m just that guy that doesn’t just have so much different shit wrong with him, but always things that are rare that doctors haven’t seen or say there is nothing that can be done.  This was just another one of those moments!

He gave me a prescription and told me if it didn’t get better in a week that it would need further investigation.  It was the first prescription I had gotten in many years.  I was given a prescription for pain killers when I had a hernia operation in the spring of 2016, but I didn’t need them and gave them away.  Other than that though, I can’t remember the last time I have gotten a prescription for myself…It might be close to 20 years…at least 15!  I’m pretty natural that way!

The cream that the doctor gave me came in a plastic container though, so that was my unavoidable moment of breaking my no-plastic part of my challenge.  I don’t feel horrible about it though considering the nature of the reason behind it.  My foot is gnarly and it was the first time in 15-20 years that I have gotten a prescription to use.  

Other than that, the no new plastic thing has been a breeze.  It has also been a real eye opener towards how much plastic we really bring into our lives on any given day.  I’m starting to walk through the stores and look at products differently.  Even when I am in a line-up to pay for something I see what everyone else is getting too.  Maaaaan…that shit is everywhere!