Gee, your veins look terrific!

Today I spent just over $100 on a pair of stockings. Yes, gentle reader, that wasn’t your eyes playing tricks on you. Stockings. Moderate Medical Compression stockings, to be more specific. Icky, uncomfortable, squeeze your legs all the time stockings. For my veins. My veins that don’t work. (More about my veins in a later post).

As I was in Provo, and the medical supply place is in Orem by the mall, I decided to make a quick stop and pick up my dumb stockings. And some WAY cute fabric for some curtains (hopefully more about the way cute curtains when I actually sew them–later. Much later). But what makes me laugh is the picture on the box.

Look at this lady. Do you believe for one second that this lady has vericose veins? I don’t think so. But they put this pretty lady in the cocktail dress lounging oh so comfortably leaning on a couch. She’s probably at a party or something, with her pretty legs in her MEDICAL COMPRESSION STOCKINGS.

Do you think if I put these stockings on (I’m hoping I can actually GET them on!) I will look that good in my little black dress, too? Of course I will!

They can’t put a realistic picture on the box, can they? Because then someone who’s going in looking for the stockings might see something like this:

But at least, then I’d know that those were the stockings I was looking for. It’s not like people are in a department store looking at these stockings. “Oh, look, honey, it’s those stockings I’ve been wanting. And they are only $100. Let’s get them instead of those flimsy little Hanes that are only $4.65.” No. You get these stockings because your doctor calls in an Rx, and you Have to get them. And no, the insurance doesn’t cover it. But I can take comfort in the fact that I’ll look sassy and sexy, just like the lady on the box, when I wear them.