Gayle so sorry to hear your foot is so bad. It is awful to have sore feet. As much as I am sure you hate surgery it sounds like it is time. I would just wear my gym shoes with a dress if your feet are that bad. Wearing dress shoes would be too painful I wear gym shoes to work every day. I work in a school. They talked last year about not letting us wear gym shoes any more. I had my doctor write me a note saying I have plantar fasiatis (cant spell) and need to wear gym shoes. They never passed the rule. ZGood luck with the surgery. If you don't get it fixed you will just suffer with it for years.
My pinwheel quilt has that cornerstone block because I didn't feel like mitering the corners with the piano key borders. It seemed like too much trouble at the time. Weight loss was going pretty good this month but I have messed it up this week.