Hi Jadey :-),

I am going to buy mine from 'The Athletes Foot', store. One of the larger stores, where they have the Brookes athletics shoes and the Rockport walking shoes I wear. For casual at home, I wear Crocks and get away with those for short time use. I found that the fitters in The Athletes foot', store and the equipment thay use to see how you walk, usually ensures they recommend the right shoe for me. They also go to a lot of trouble for me, removing existing inner soles and adding orthotics which they carve and tailor make for each of my lol, flat feet.
I have knock knees, partly due to the flat feet and no doubt added to by the morbidly obese size I used to be and if I don't get my shoes fitted by someone skilled at looking at how I will walk in them, I get a lot of knee pain. I once used a walking stick myself for years. I discovered one advantage of that, lol, I could shop in the Western suburb's without men pinching my bum. lol. Seriously, I never had a groper aim for my broad behind, when I went out with my 'whack you right back if you try', stick :-).

Good shoes and weight loss and swimming gradually fixed my knee problem, beginning from the time when I was almost ready for the motorised cart to get me about. I'm SO VERY GRATEFUL my knees, feet and leg recovered from two accidents, falls and my obesity and I wish you all the very best for your recovery, I'll be willing you forward :-), you have waited so long for this.

In your case, you would no doubt have a chance to ask some experts while your getting your recovery advice, what shoes will be the best ones, I'd be apprehensive about experimenting with shoes, before you feel fully recovered. When I had the skin graft on my leg, they referred me to a foot specialist for my orthotics and just wanted me to have good lace up walkers and that's when I discovered my Rockports.

I'm so eager to follow your progress as you recover, Jadey. :-). All the very best xxx