The Recovery Wire Facebook ad: “What nurses need to know about bunions”

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A Public Apology to Every Nurse Who Ever Wasted Money on a Bunion Corrector I'm a pediatric nurse. I've been in scrubs for twenty-two years. And I want to apologize to every other nurse who ever walked into a CVS or opened Amazon looking for something — anything — to fix the bunion she's been limping home from her shift on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry nobody told you the gel spacers would slide out of your sock in ten minutes. I'm sorry nobody told you the night splint would do nothing, because the moment you take it off in the morning and put your shoe on, the twelve-hour shift breaks whatever the splint spent eight hours trying to fix. I'm sorry the custom orthotics your podiatrist sold you for three hundred dollars were built for your arch, not for your toe. I bought every one of those things. I'm in my fifties. My feet do not get a break. By the time I finally scheduled bunion surgery, I had spent about eight hundred dollars on stuff that couldn't work. I had a colleague who had the bunionectomy in 2019. She was out for nine weeks. She came back to the floor and within eight months the second toe had already started drifting again. I watched it happen and decided I was not going to do that to my own foot. The ads on Facebook will tell you bunion surgery fails half the time. The actual peer-reviewed number is closer to one in four. Still not odds I wanted to take at her age, or mine. So for two years, I did what every nurse does. I wore the Danskos. I took the ibuprofen. I iced it. I stood at the med cart and shifted my weight to my left foot on the days it hurt too much to stand on my right. I pretended it was fine. Here is what I wish someone had told me in 2015. Your bunion is mostly not bone. It's soft tissue. It's tendon and joint capsule and muscle that have been pulled in the wrong direction for years. The bone has barely moved. What's moved is everything around the bone, and those things can be re-trained. Every twelve-hour shift is about ten thousand steps with your big toe pushed sideways. Your night splint is trying to undo in eight hours what your shift is re-doing for sixteen. That's why it failed. It wasn't you. The math was wrong. Three weeks before my surgery date, a friend's cousin — a former ICU nurse — sent me a link to a device I'd never heard of. It was made by a small company called Askelo. I'm not going to tell you it's magic. It isn't. My bunion is still there. It's smaller than it was three months ago, and I can work a full shift without limping for the first time in a decade. That is all I can honestly tell you. Askelo's device came with a ninety-day guarantee. If my foot hadn't changed in three months, I would have gotten my money back. That's not why it worked. But it's why I was willing to try. I cancelled the surgery on February 21st. If you're a nurse and you've bought three of those gel packs and thrown each one in a drawer, read the link below before you schedule yours. 👉 https://getaskelo.com/pages/adv-1

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What nurses need to know about bunions

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