Just picked this up - Prius C

[bronsin]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

I was just reading my reply to this post (from yesterday) and it dawned on me -- Bronsin writes "With me it's all about the bottom line" -- Then why did he get an automatic?

I have something called "polyneuropathy" in my feet. Pushing in a clutch made my foot hurt so much I could harly walk at times.

So I sold my ECHO and bought a Yaris with AT.

Im a much better man for it.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

I have something called "polyneuropathy" in my feet. Pushing in a clutch made my foot hurt so much I could harly walk at times.

So I sold my ECHO and bought a Yaris with AT.

Im a much better man for it.

I hear ya. I'm sitting with one leg propped up on a chair right now. In California I put a tarp on my driveway to get it through the rainy season (before repairing) and I attempted to walk around the edge of it and slipped. Essentially I sat on my corkscrewing leg as I was falling. It is essentially the same injury that San Francisco 49ers running back Garrison Hearst had on the field that put him out for so long. It didn't heal right, and later that year I had to go back in the hospital. After 4 days of fighting the infection the doctors said that I had just turned the corner so they could tell me that if I hadn't I would have either lost my leg or died. The hospital was a high rise and one of the floors served as a convalescent hospital. The next day they put me in there for 2 weeks. After I got out of the hospital my leg healed, but blood would pool in my feet. The vascular surgeon told me I'd have to wear compression socks for the rest of my life. I lost weight and the pooling stopped and I no longer needed the socks. The infection I had was called Cellulitis, and occasionally I'll have a reoccurrence. Antibiotics take care of it, and occasionally I'll have to prop my leg or legs up for a bit....until June of this year. The antibiotic didn't take care of it and I had to go into the hospital for 3 days for an IV drip antibiotic. I get these reoccurrences in both legs, even though all the pieces of metal for my ankle are only in one leg. The infection that put me in the hospital in June was in the leg without metal in it. The last time (before this June) that I had Cellulitis was in 2009 and for the first time I got it twice in one year and 2 months apart. I'm hoping this isn't happening again right now. The doctors told me early on that my circulation will never be 100 percent in either foot and even when I'm at my best weight and exercising I can still tell that my circulation will never be 100 percent. Other than when I get Cellulitis, I don't have any pain and I have normal sensitivity and function. I hope it stays that way...and I hope I'm not having a reoccurrence right now. I may go to the doctor later today.