OMG In order to work at Curves, I'd have to wear shoes...

I can barely remember the 1/2 hour long conversation, because at some point, she said I'd have to wear real tennis shoes, and my brain went away. 

Everyone who knows me, knows I can't stand wearing shoes.  I wear sandals pretty much year round.  Anything tight on me tends to exaberate symptoms.  Socks and shoes are too tight.  They make the numbness move up my body.  You'd think I'd get used to it by now, but it's just so uncomfortable, and so easy to fix, by just wearing sandals.  If I do wear socks and/or shoes, I tend to get worse cognitively, which affects my thinking, speaking, reasoning.  Because the numbness is so extreme, I have to use all my energy to focus on where my feet are, and my body sits on top of my feet, so having to control an entire numb body is purely exhaustion. 

So when she said I'd have to wear shoes, my brain screamed nooooooooooo. 

That was this morning.  I've been looking at my tennis shoes for a couple hours now.  I just absolutely dread putting them on.  But so many other things have improved... maybe that has too? 

But just now?  I went out to the car so that I could show you the 'shoes' I wear while working out. 

For Health Department reasons, I can't go barefoot in a public place. 

As I was walking out to the car to get these, it suddenly occurred to me... me wearing shoes that work for me rather than tennis shoes... would be Reasonable Accommodation as outlined by the AMA (American Disabilities Act). 

Me wearing a good solid pair of sandals is perfectly reasonable. 

HA!  Take that BloodClot Lady!

I'm gonna talk to ReikiMan about this.  He's an administrator of big places like drug units, and nursing homes, etc.  He'll know.  I wanna know if I'm thinking out my butt. 

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