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Fun With Orthotics...

Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:00

By Bonnie Pesplanus

Many of you know that orthotics are worn by people who are hot. You know this because I have shared with you that I now have them in my own shoes and can verify this as a true fact. As I sit here wearing them under a broken heat vent that perpetually runs on

arches in desperate need of support, or tendons ripped to smithereens in desperate need of help if they were ever to return to running. It made me think of walking slow, walking canes and, well, prunes. Maybe even a gray poodle named Colonel Klink. But alas my world has been broadened and my knowledge expanded by the ever so gentle process of perpetual 30isms. What, pray tell, is 30isms? That is the age of 30-something that never ends. It is a state of blissful unawareity (cool new word) that allows one to flow happy and content through life, never aging, never worrying about aging and never ever getting that dreaded hug of death know as a mammogram. Albeit the 30isms are virtually perfect, but every so often something arises that must be quickly dealt with and swept ever so gently under the carpet. Like tendons ripped to smithereens and crashing arches.