Elephant ankles - BEYOND cankles...

Some days, it's hard to walk...this is so gross. And it feels like my skin is about to burst open. It will be nice to be able to wear shoes again - I recently went to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse wearing slippers because that's all that will even remotely contain these sausages. *sigh*

And yes, those are compression stockings I'm wearing. They help, somewhat, but see those folds? After a couple hours those areas feel like if you wrap a rubberband or string around your little finger and let it turn blue. And since the stockings are toe-less so that I can wear slippers, even if my feet and ankles have minimal swelling, my toes look like giant pigs-in-a-blanket. Which makes them look even funnier when I take off the stockings. TRUTH.