My right leg was feeling quite swell,
And giving me all kinds of hell,
Now I’ve got this shocking
Constrictive-type stocking
This dreadful uprising to quell.
Don’t blame me for showing a view
Of such awful hosiery to you;
It’s due to Ruth2Day
Demanding a display –
A commenting blogger, that’s who!
Colonialist's Blog 
They look very sexy, I don’t know what you’re talking about 😉
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I can assure you that I don’t feel in the least bit sexy when wearing the wretched thing!
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Granny says they look ugly, but they work. She had a strained muscle once and had to wear those for a long time. At least you didn’t lost your humour, Col 😀 Hope your leg feels better soon. Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend 🙂 ❤
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Ow, I hope your right leg will behave again soon! Though you gave me a big grin, thank you for that.
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Thanks – I really do hope I don’t need the blasted thing for much longer!
Well, if it gave some grins at least it has stretched to another function! 🙂
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A positive side effect from a distance. 😉 Is your leg very painful?
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It was only in the beginning – very! Now it simply has a rather uncomfortable stiff feeling. Still, I went out on my mountain bike yesterday …
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And that was good or bad?
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yowzers, that is one heck of a sock! I bet it’s as bad as pulling on those flight stockings that require a load of grunting and huffing and a lot of old heave-ho! Seriously though, I hope you feel better soon 🙂
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The flight stockings are on the same lines, but amateurish by comparison!
It had better work, after all the discomfort of pulling them on and off and of just wearing one, or I shall be seriously annoyed.
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In no way can I laugh at your predicament, but some of these comments are hilarious…
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People are so cruel. They see I have a sore leg, and now they are pulling it! 🙂
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you wouldn’t think that friends would do such a thing..lol! and lots of love
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Luckily the days are getting cooler now Col and in winter it will keep your legs nice and warm. I am glad to see though that your Cellulitis wasn’t blamed on a spider bite. 😉
Feel better soon. 😀
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I do hope I’ve shed the thing before I would enjoy any warming benefit!
Well, I must admit I tried to pin the crime on a spider, but they were pronounced innocent by the medical types.
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I hope so too, but if not, there would be something positive in it. 😆
I am very glad to hear that there are medical types that doesn’t always blame the spider. It gives me hope. 😀
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Jy is ‘n gehoorsame Pasiënt.. gehoor hier by die Voetevrou (Podiatrist) in my voordeur niemand hou van daardie kouse wat jou in greep vasvat nie, steeds die moeite werd. Nietemin, dat jy kan poëties raak oor die pynlike siituasie is wragtag prysenswaardig ..mooi loop!
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Net gehoorsaam omdat ek nie lus is om aan te hou met ‘n blaasop in plaas van ‘n been!
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Pynlike storie?
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It could be worse – something like leopard print or fishnet pattern??
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Hey – I could go back to the ducktail/Teddy Boy era and have them candy-striped in shocking pink?
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Sounds like a winning plan!
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You are in the wars! But at least you can still spit out the words 😉
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I suppose I should be grateful for anything that gives ammunition for a Really Awful Rhyme.
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I know those stockings are tight, Col. Not that I’ve ever worn them, mind.
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The wretched thing makes me wonder how women who wore those corset things could possibly have survived for more than a day.
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I can imagine that for someone like yourself who wears shorts and flip-flops most of the time, this tight stocking must feel very weird. Hope it does the trick. 🙂
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I don’t enjoy it one bit, but it does seem to be working!
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Do you wear it on one leg or two
My sympathies are surely with you
I tried it when my veins caused me pain
and I said i would never try it again.
your stocking is a good shade of pale
suitable for any male
But for me , it was dark brown you see
And definitely was not good for me
So in the bin they did go
with a flick of the wrist, just so
I now use a gel, which suits me well
No elastic stocking for this fem- fatale
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Just the one – but that is one too many!
I’d so much rather not have any.
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Now that’s really socking it to your readers. (Hope your toes are wiggling free shortly)
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I fervently hope so, too!
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what is the other sock for? a spare? 🙂
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One in the wash; one on.
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I have to wear those, and the prescription ones act as a garotte in three places on each leg.(ankle, below and above knee) I now wear Marks and Spensers’ compression flight socks – any colour you like so long as it’s black.
Your poem is cute.
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You have my sympathy. At least I am (hopefully) only condemned to it for a couple of weeks!
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What fun……a leg-selfie 😉
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At least my hairy limb is decently covered!
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I for some unknown reason, missed the earlier post. From the poem above, the word cellulitis came to mind. My sister had a bout of peripheral cellulitis last month, so I went back to read the missed post. Cracked skin or a bang can cause it. In my sister’s case it followed a visit to a new podiatrist/chiropodist. Thankfully an antibiotic and rest seems to have done the trick. Sending healing hugs from the northern hemisphere!
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Thanks – so your guess was spot-on! In my case I think it stemmed from abrasion from a too-loose sandal of the wrap-over kind.
The antibiotic did away with the infection, but by that time the leg liked being that size.
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Yes, my sister’s leg was swollen and hot particularly in the evenings. She had Osteomyelitis as a teenager and she thinks there is some connection between both conditions. Being an ex nurse, she kinda suspected what was going on before it was confirmed. Hope yours heals fast.
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I have never, to my knowledge, had the osteo thing. My condition entered with a fever to rival malaria. I didn’t connect it to the leg at first; thought I had a virulent ‘flu.
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Yes, that is how it began for my sister too. Flu like symptoms shivering with a temperature of 104 for two days. Not nicw.
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Oh dear, I hope you’re feeling swell again soon!
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*shudder* But not in the swollen sense!
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You amaze me – you can even make awful hosiery sound humorous!
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As some of the war cartoons you have posted show, it is amazing what can be funny!
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