In May, 2006 I sprained my ankle so badly that I broke 2 bones in my ankle and had what they call an avulsion fracture on the outside edge of my foot that they call a dancer's fracture. The two in my ankle healed fine, but the avulsion fracture, which is just a chip of bone snatched off the tip of the end, took 11 months to even start reattaching. The visit when it was finally healing was the decision time for surgical reattachment, so I was glad that it finally decided to cooperate. I still can't wear heels for long or above about 1-1/2 to 2" at all (my 2 favorite pair of shoes are both 3" heels!), and it's only in the last year that I can sit with my feet crossed and my foot turned where it puts any pressure on it without making it sore. That's about the time I finally started being able to stand any heel at all. I found with mine that barefoot was the most comfortable, until I started with heel spur pain in the other foot in January 2012. Then I couldn't stand really flat shoes at all, and wouldn't you know it, I'd just gotten 2 awesome pair of real leather sandals dirt cheap a few months before when we were in Greece! I'm a few days short of a year post-op for that, and finally between the two have started wearing a little bit of a heel again. I got 2 pair of these (
http://shopeu.ecco.com/dk/da/ecco/ec...&price=240-850) recently and wear them almost every day in hopes of slowly retraining my foot so I can wear heels again!