Week 15

I'm back from my last appointment! Everything went well & the x-rays look great. I'm allowed to go bicycling and wear my heels again! HEEELS! I had secretly tried on some lower heeled sandals a couple of days ago and it felt fine. My foot doesn't go all the way in yet because of the slight swelling but I'm almost there. Also, I have to hold off on running for another month. My latest x-ray showed 24.7mm lengthened. Clearly I had forgotten to include the first 2 full turns at the office in addition to my 22 day distraction so that's the official length ;).

Anyway, I asked Dr.Nagler to send me the picture he took on my first appointment back at the end of March. I've mentioned previously that the only "before" pic I have is the blurry one posted in the first post. So here it is:

Before & After

It's kinda painful to look at and shocking to see it in detail. The curved middle toe, the corn and the tiny nail on the brachytoe. It sounds harsh but my internal reaction when he showed me the pic was something along the lines of "kill it with fire!!". Not very nice of me but it's the truth. I don't feel that way about all brachytoes, just the one that used to be mine. Most brachytoes look adorable as you can see on the facebook group I've posted on the right. In my opinion, mine was too severe. I had already forgotten.

I'm so grateful to Dr. Nagler and his staff, they're all amazing. This whole ordeal is a long process and God bless them for doing it. I can't think of a better way to express my gratitude than with food so I brought them my favorite cupcakes from Crave.

ScarAway Week 5

Scar update time! It looks the pretty much the same as last week's pic hehe. I still have several weeks of ScarAway to go so I'll keep posting pics. Also, I'm walking normally. I got another pair of sneakers in my regular size and am now using those. YAY for reduced swelling!

I've gotten several questions via email about my treatment. The main one is "who is your doctor?". With his permission I've posted his info on the right panel of this blog under "Who fixed my foot?".

The second most asked question is "would you do it again?". The answer is yes yes YES. If I had brachy on my other foot, I'd be in the middle of distraction right now LOL!

@ the beach

Squeezing into a 3 1/4 inch heel sandal

I went to the beach on Saturday and took a pic of my feet. No more burying in the sand. So that's it for now. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or just ask in the comments section :) Have a great rest of the week and weekend and as usual thanks for following!

Hi! My name is Brachyfemme; I'm a twenty-something Texan girl who suffers from a condition called Brachymetatarsia. In short (pun intended): the 4th metatarsal on my right foot stopped growing in childhood which made my fourth toe (or "ring" toe as I've heard it called) appear to be a lot shorter than the rest.

Is brachymet painful? Sometimes. I love to run however after a couple of miles of running, the right half of my right foot goes uncomfortably numb probably due to uneven weight distribution. Also, I love shoes and almost all of them have material than run right across my lil toe and cause it to get rubbed raw :(

In addition to physical discomfort, this has stopped me from doing a ton of things. For example: Texas + Memorial Day= float the river. It's a blast but less so when everyone is wearing flip flops and you're wearing crocs or other hideous waterproof shoes. Same goes for waterparks, the beach, and swimming pools. Only my immediate family has seen my foot. Nobody else in my entire extended family has it.

Probably the most sadistic thing I ever did to myself was work at a shoe store surrounded by shoes I couldn't wear. Once at the store I saw a girl walk in with brachy on BOTH feet and she was rockin' those flip flops like nobody's business. If only we all had such confidence.


As I said, this is something I have been deeply embarrassed about my entire life and finally took the plunge and had the external fixator surgery 4 weeks ago today. I could've gone to Arizona to have Dr. Lee do the 1 step lengthening but I found an awesome doc close to home so I figured why not just keep it local ;).


Anyway I only have 1 clear-ish "before" pic of my foot due to I hated my foot and never took pics of it. So I'm posting it here so you can have an idea of what it looked like :)