#and a double hernia in my intestines that wasn't noticed until a few months later
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So I was born with windswept feet.
What that means is that when I was born, instead of having my feet point forward like they should, they both pointed 90 degrees to one side.
One of my feet was put into a cast to straighten it out because I guess it was a bit worse than the other, and the other one my mom had to do exercises with my foot every day, turning it the right way and holding it in place and whatnot.
My mom's told me the story many times over the years, but it's never really been a main focus because there were many complications with her pregnancy and my birth and my health afterwards, so it was always tucked into a long list of things that were happening all at once.
Well, at my last physical therapy appointment, the PT noted a few times how I needed to straighten out my right foot, and I actually couldn't do one of the exercises because my foot kept shifting, with my toes turning toward the right.
And as we gave up on that exercise, my mind went to how my feet were windswept when I was little.
Since, I've noticed that when I stop at rest, my foot automatically shifts toward the right and when I purposely turn it so my toes are pointing the same way as my left toes, I realized it stresses my ankle a little.
And now I'm wondering if that's the windswept-ness of it still around after all this time, or just something else.
idk.
#my mom had a fibroid cyst in with me that led to her needing a hysterectomy after my birth#and i was born almost 5 weeks early#and had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck#and a double hernia in my intestines that wasn't noticed until a few months later#I weighed 5 lbs with my cast on about a week after my birth#and we didn't find out i was half deaf until years later#but it ties in with it all too#so the windswept feet were always just part of that story#a minor and almost insignificant part
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