Name: Vicki

Location: Texas

Sex: Female

Status: InARelationship

Walking in my Sassy Shoes

Posted: 1/19/2008 at 06:31 PM

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There was an ad campaign in the UK that featured legs and feet of four women, the MS Party Girls. I wrote a blog post that prompted a fellow-ms'er, Shirl the Girl, to leave a comment about sassy, sexy shoes. I think this post is an appropriate response. Here it is --

Sassy shoes - Wear them if you have them.

When I was walking -- long, long ago -- and started falling for no reason and with no warning, I fell one rainy, sloppy day getting out of the car. My hose were ripped, my leg was scraped, slightly bloody and muddy. I was going to a meeting that I was to chair, attended by clients as well as people who worked for me. I had to be there.

In those days I was a stickler for being on time, so I took off my heels and walked in stocking feet over the wet pavement into the elevator, down the hall into the meeting. As I opened the door, there was chuckling and a taunting voice inside said, "It's about time." Then they saw me as the door opened wider - a heavy silence filled the room. I must have been a site. The meeting began only a few minutes late.

That was the last time I wore heels; I went shopping for flats that evening. MS had taken away my shoes. I had some really good shoes, professional, sexy, sassy, and I was sorry to see them gone from my closet. Someone got a fantastic bargain of expensive, gently worn shoes, and I entered a new phase of my life a couple of inches shorter.

As a former fashionista, I envy Shirl's ability to wear sassy shoes, applaud her willingness to do so, but caution her -- please be careful. I was lucky it was only a scrape, albeit a visibly messy one.

I hadn't thought of this until I wrote a personal article, "What it means to be disabled." I'm pretty good about not dwelling in deep personal thought of what life used to be, but it was kind of sad, kind of funny, and somewhat traumatic at the same time. Now it is a mere sliver of a memory in another life.

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Debbie wrote on Jan 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM
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hi vicki, good post. i also remember wearing sassy shoes and clothes, it's understandable to miss them because they were fun to wear![and looked great too :) xoxo
Vicki wrote on Jan 31, 2008 at 5:16 PM
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Yes, I do miss my shoes, but now women seem to have so many. Most of the time I am barefoot, and though not fashionable, it is comfortable.

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