Numb toes

Next on my agenda after finishing my earlier post was to look up why my big toes have been numb ever since day three in the woods with the kidos. I have had the same hiking boots for seven or eight years and don't recall having numb big toes in the past. It's not painful, but it is irritating and a bit disconcerting - like, are my toes going gangreen?

My super in-depth research (i.e. 20 minutes of web-browsing) leads me to believe that I have a fairly common condition experienced by hikers, and most creatively pseudonymed "Christmastoe" by tree-planters who work from May to September on steep terrain and then regain feeling in their big toes around Christmas time. Great. That puts me into February with numb toes.

At least I can talk about having Christmastoe, though.

Might be worth it.