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  1. Texas Walker

    knee pain

    I will throw one thought in that hasn't been mentioned. (Only because I had to come home early this year, after doing 1/3 of the Camino walk we had planned.) I got into problems because *I wasn't drinking enough water.* I became pretty much unable to walk. Had to taxi to the train station in...
  2. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    Compeed are not designed to be changed daily like other bandages. The glue is on the whole thing and when it gives out under normal conditions the blister has healed. Not so much on hot, sweaty feet inside an enclosed boot/shoe. As a counterpoint to your pharmacist that maybe doesn't realize...
  3. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    Adding to what dick bird said, the thick socks take up the not-enough-space inside the bote. I personally walk in Injinji sox, as they keep my toes from getting into each others' business, and often the Injinji I am wearing on the trail is a liner one. *Do not put good hiking socks into the...
  4. Texas Walker

    Hiking with bad popped blisters

    In 2014 my situation was similar...partly owing to the floods we walked through the second day of the pilgrimage. The blisters were awful, and when they healed they were replaced by athlete's foot. The larger shoes are critical. Also, try out the simple treatment of: alcohol to clean, gauze to...
  5. Texas Walker

    Advice needed: Am I getting enough hill training?

    PF responds to stretching, apparently, at least for some people. And there are the "tennis ball" massages, too. If you've gotten to Borda/the inn, you've done the worst of the day. The rest of the inclines are much more gentle. BC
  6. Texas Walker

    I'm so discouraged!

    In 2014, I walked. Day 1, the Napoleon. I had not foot troubles. Day 2, flooding rains. I got both black toes and huge blisters. I was on the Body Glide/ vaseline train then. It did me no good at all. Probably because I needed to pay attention to drying my socks out at midday and other things...
  7. Texas Walker

    LIVE from the Camino Help for sore heel and ankle

    When DH had a swollen ankle that would not support weight, we walked into the clinica and told them our situation. They do have a way to email you a bill. They took down our info, including passport number, and after an examination ("Was there an argument?" apparently the anti domestic abuse...
  8. Texas Walker

    Knee pain...help!

    I hesitate to add a comment, but here goes: My first knee pain was during the Frances, in 2014. I blew it off, basically, just suffered through. The next Camino, the Portugues, I didn't have much if any, and the time I fell down and got a huge bruise has nothing to do with knees. (:-)) Then we...
  9. Texas Walker

    Cautionary tale of the importance of travel insurance!

    I think it becomes adventure when ropes and pitons are involved...just a lot of day hikes isn't actually adventurous, after all.
  10. Texas Walker

    Old healed blister. Dead skin came off, no blister, should I tape?.

    I tried vaseline, or Body Glide...they didn't work out for me. (YMMV) What worked out for me was 1) clean with alcohol, or hand sanitizer, 2) put a little square of gauze on the incipient blister , 3) put paper surgical tape over all. Of course, because my feet sweat, I had to replace all of...
  11. Texas Walker

    Training, heavy rain for 2 weeks

    There is a certain amount of skill in walking in rain. Practice while you are at home and can rejigger your setup with less hassle. Also this is your chance to see if your shoes will dump you on your behind if you walk on wet pavement. (Some do!) For alternatives, especially if you live in...
  12. Texas Walker

    Insurance advice for Camino Primitivo trip in Spain

    It's worth checking your credit cards to see if travel insurance is included in the bargain when you use their card to buy the ticket. At the time we used travel insurance for an injury in Spain, we were on an Allianz policy that we bought with the ticket. This is basically a reimbursement at...
  13. Texas Walker

    A chronic condition and an indelicate question

    Well, sort of. There do exist communal showers, as we once encountered in junior high school, in some albergues. I'm thinking here of Ponte de Lima. And they didn't really have anywhere to hang the clean clothes, I parked my stuff on the windowsill. It wouldn't have worked if I hadn't had the...
  14. Texas Walker

    A chronic condition and an indelicate question

    Garbanzos are chick peas. The big lumpy yellowish things you find in salad sometimes. Fabas are another kind of bean, called Fava in English, some people are said to be allergic to them. Soliciting here for different dry-bean words! ;)
  15. Texas Walker

    Travel insurance for US travelers over 70

    My credit card does trip interruption (collected on that once) and says it does the stuff we all worry about, the medical emergencies...I concur, look carefully into the benefits clauses of the card.
  16. Texas Walker

    Blisters, Red toe, toenail loss

    IMHO...your toenail isn't that awful looking. (I had black toenails on both feet the first time.) Your pre-Camino 10K-ish walks weren't enough to get the foot swelling thing going on, they deceived you. About Mile 8 the feet pop up to a new size...this would be about Kilometer...looking for...
  17. Texas Walker

    Monkey Butt. . . Prevention, Care, and Treatment

    Welcome back! I've been praying for you.
  18. Texas Walker

    Deep_Puncture_wound_right foot. What helped you w/ similar experience?

    The one thing I would contribute is this: don't let the wound weal off too quick. (Having a sealed off pouch of infection is bad.) DH impaled his knuckle on a yucca (Spanish Dagger for those who know) and his hand swelled up like a baseball. The word from our GP was, besides a refresh on the...
  19. Texas Walker

    Hep A/B vaccination

    Context on that, for anyone scratchingtheir heads: Hep A is spread by eating the wrong (contaminated) things. Hep B is spread by bodily fluids. Re the meat of the question, I never felt like I was in need of Hep vaccination in Spain. (Hep vaccinations of any kind were not a thing when I was...
  20. Texas Walker

    Bringing CBD Oil to Europe in Luggage

    Cannabis is the hemp plant. The CBD is supposed to have been prepared from the non-THC components of the plant. Rope oil, then? ;)

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