I had something going on with my left heel last week- a combination of what felt like neuropathic sensations of electrical shocks emanating up my left leg from my heel, and just plain outright pain. Bad pain. Not kidney-stone bad, but enough to make me very grouchy for a couple of days. Ibuprofen helped, but it was still hard to walk, so I put up my feet for Friday and Saturday and about half of Sunday, using ice and moist heat in alternating intervals. It seems to have done the trick (add to that that I'm also avoiding the Bad Shoes with the Very Worn Soles).
I had this a number of years ago and it came from wearing shoes with no cushioning in the heel part of the soles. Once I got new shoes it went away gradually, but I also neglected to put my foot up and apply alternating ice and moist heat. This time, I followed that regimen exactly, and it's almost totally better! Walking with a fair amount of ease and balance today, with just a tiny kernel of intense pain.
Also on Saturday, the package from AVL with the replacement pulley for the shaft-lifting treadle arrived. It's so funny...it's solid while plastic, but exactly the same as the earlier wooden one. Interesting to see how small the cylindrical bore is. Yesterday afternoon, after my foot felt pretty good, I went back downstairs and put it back on the loom. I also added wire ties to the axle in order to keep the pulley from playing up and down the axle as it had been before.
It's working again. I used the previous dobby chain that was still mounted in the mechanical dobby; it worked very well. AND, without the odd play that the conical-ized bore had been causing with the old play is gone. I hadn't realized how much of a difference it would make; now it's very smooth!
I also started winding bouts of cotton for the next project, which is something I'm calling a 'dôtaku-bag'. More on that later!
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