I had my (hopefully) final foot doctor's appointment. I am cleared to be myself again. By which I mean, in increasing small increments, I can run, do Aikido, surf, and do all the other activities that in the past kept my head on straight and my gut from widening. Now it needs some narrowing. As well as my head with the straightening.

At any rate, this is a huge relief - the feets are on the mend. Surely the surgical procedure helped, but so too did wearing hard-soled shoes like Doc Martens, rather than sneaks or even "hiking sneakers" which are still soft-soled, and thus not sufficiently rigid to support my trotters. Not to mention my hippopatamic land-mass.