My husband went from telling me I was "turning into one of those people" to asking if he could use my balm.

Two weeks later, he ordered three jars of his own.

But before any of that, there were nights when I sat on the bathroom floor with my feet on the cold tile, furious that he thought I should stop looking.

He saw the creams. He saw me on the laptop late at night. He thought I was being unreasonable.

I wanted to be asleep.

I'd tried a magnesium cream, then three more creams from Amazon and the pharmacy. Six weeks later, I was still waking up.

Then a woman in a diabetes group called me and told me to get a pen and my hand mirror.

Her name was Dolores. She wanted me to draw a circle around the worst spot on my foot.

After all those jars, I wasn't ready to believe in another one. I read the balm's page three times, checked the ingredients and looked at the return policy before I ordered.

When Tom finally asked what I was using, I showed him the balm.

I put Dolores's advice and the balm I chose here. Read them before you buy another cream for the nightstand.
