How I'm spending SuperBowl Sunday evening... This medieval instrument is called a DynaSplint, familiarly called a "shoe." The bar is spring loaded and the padded knob pushes down on...

 

For me, on the 3rd toe, which a couple of days into the new year started to move leftward and up. Maybe having to have a couple of bone spurs removed from the left side of the toe was a factor? The tissue, nicely healed from the Nov. 30 procedure, must still be malleable.

 

I'm supposed to use the "shoe" two or three times a day, 15 minutes a session, then upping to 30, 45, and hour. I'm at half an hour now. When the toe doesn't ache after an hour, then I increase the tension of the bar from 1 now to 2, etc.

Medicare and I are renting the DynaSplint by the week. DynaSplint is a company in Severna Park, Maryland. I like supporting Maryland businesses.

Jessica Plank is the rep who brought it to my place and showed me how to use it. I like her a lot. The DynaSplint itself, not so much.

But I think it is working.

That is the point.

Go Ravens!