I always found walking to be painful.
I didn’t know that it wasn’t painful for everybody, so I didn’t mention it. It wasn’t so severe as to keep me from walking entirely. I didn’t think a thing of it.
Then I got hurt (as chronicled here Jordan Yates' answer to What is your most embarrassing injury?) and a few x-rays confirmed that my hips were all out of whack.
I don’t know the technical term— I believe the doctor said:
“Ma’am, I’m sorry to tell you… your hips are ‘all out of whack’. You’ll have to receive a whack transplant.”
Or something like that.
Basically, I had hips that were turned inward, which is why I stand like:
I’m sorry I have sad feet. It’s not exactly sandal season in the Rockies right now.
I’m amazed that in the thirteen years I’d been alive at that point, somehow no one had looked at my feet and gone:
“Excuse me, ma’am? Your daughter walks like a confused pigeon. Is she okay?”
No one noticed it.
So I went into physical therapy to strengthen my core (hips specifically) which helped reduce the pain significantly. Walking for long periods became possible once again.
I still have worse days, where my hips ache and I can’t sleep and I can’t walk quickly, but on the whole, it’s gotten a little better.
I still walk like a stupid pigeon, though.
Read other answers by Jordan Yates on Quora:
- Why is your life beautiful?
- What is life like after being successfully treated for depression?
- If you could recommend anything to me, what would it be?
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