Coping With Brachymetatarsia

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Me and My toe
by: CC on Wed, Jan 07 2009

I am 17 years old and only have this disorder on my right foot. The left looks like any humans-beings toe.

When I was small I loved it. I would show it to everyone who cared to look and when people asked me whats was up I was happy.

But when I was 12, boys started teasing me about it, calling me “deformed-foot” and “piranna foot” since I got fed up with this one boy who kept asking “what wrong with your foot” and sick of giving the anwer “I was born that way!” so I told him a piranna bit it off. They weren’t very nice and it made me unblieveably self-confice of it. To a point where I refused to wear flip-flops or any shoes that showed my feet and if i had to go bare-foot I would put a bandage on.

I am slowly getting over it. My friends ask me why i don’t get surgery but I am torn in two. I want it to feel confident but then I think I was born like this, no one I know has this. Why should I take something away that was given to me.

I am slowly starting to realise that my toe is a part of me, no one else (I know of) can say “Look at my toe!” and it makes me an indivival.

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January 2009

Phase II - by SA - (Mon, Jan 19 2009)
I have brachymetatarsia… or should I say its soon to be a thing of the past. On January 12th I had surgery and in 3 months the procedure will be completed. I have an external fixator on my forth toe and have pins in toes 3 and 5. [more..]
I have brachymetatarsia on the second metatarsals - by rv - (Sun, Jan 11 2009)
I’m 56 years old and no one ever told me that my short second toes were a congenital deformity until this week when I went to a podiatrist for the first time in twenty years. (Twenty years ago I surgery on my left foot for a bunion and Morton’s neuroma.) [more..]
Me and My toe - by CC - (Wed, Jan 07 2009)
I am 17 years old and only have this disorder on my right foot. The left looks like any humans-beings toe. [more..]

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