I never paid much attention to my feet.
They carried me through long workdays, school runs, weekend trips — and I barely noticed them.
Until the morning everything changed.
I was rushing out the door, already late, when I slipped my foot into my favourite shoes… and froze.
A sharp pain shot through my big toe joint.
I yanked the shoe off, annoyed — thinking maybe I stepped wrong the day before.
But when I pressed my thumb against the side of my foot, I felt it.
A hard bump.
A bump that wasn’t there just months earlier.
At first, I convinced myself it was nothing — maybe a callus, maybe swelling. I hoped it would “settle down” if I ignored it.
I was wrong.