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Yes. Now I'm home I get great satisfaction out of peeling the thick layers of dead skin off the spots that once were blisters. What that says about me I hate to think.
A week before commencing my Camino I had a fall at home and injured my ankle. I thought I had just suffered a bad sprain. I walked 185kms in great pain and on returning home a CT scan revealed I had a fracture of the Tibia at the base where it meets with the ankle. My ankle, foot and toes each evening were 3 times their normal size. As I had dreamed for 20 years of crossing the Pyrenees I just soldiered on and have never regretted doing is.I should share that my original question was prompted by looking at a report from an out-patients department on the camino ALMOST with affection - this is months after returning home
I loved showing my friends pictures of my 2 massive blisters last year and hearing them ooh and aah and saying 'how ever did you manage to carry on?'I am not sure that there is a pilgrimage without pain; tolerable pain is my criterion!
I have never had one!All in all I think the odd blister is a rite of passage and something to be enjoyed
Well,Falcon I've been fitted up with some 'proper' footwear for my next walk(imminent) and I hope I never see a blister again. Hoorah!!I have never had one!
Forgot to add I am 73 years of age.
To me, that may be a null set. Who would walk with that central facet? Indeed, such a pilgrim would stay home.When it's the central facet of the walk.
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