as if my feet weren't already gross enough

Edema.  A nasty little side effect of pregnancy.... I've been working at a basketball camp all weekend reffing games (which I'm terrible at by the way), running stations, staying up on dorm duty and functioning off of 5 hours of sleep each night.  When my body started to hurt I figured it was just an adjustment from my previous lazy lifestyle of watching Keeping Up With The Kardashian's - actually, in my defense, I've been going to the gym a few days a week.  Well, this morning I looked down at my feet and they were swollen (gasp!)  

As if my feet weren't nasty enough.  People tell me I should keep my socks on, Pedicure people cut my foot massages first out of pure disgust.  I had been reading for months now that my feet might swell.  I assumed I was in the clear by now. Nope. Wrong. 

As any good researcher would do, I googled "Edema" and found out that it is worse in the summer and during the third trimester. Summer-check! Third trimester-almost check! It's due to the tissues in your feet/legs retaining fluids and changes in your blood flow due to my growing uterus putting pressure on the vena cava (the vein that carried blood from your legs back up to your heart), so the blood gets all backed up and pools in your tissue.

So all of you who are worried about my swollen feet, don't worry.  I've also googled how to alleviate edema.  

• don't cross your legs
• stretch
• alternate sitting and standing
• wear maternity stockings

Perhaps maternity stockings are the perfect thing to get me more swag... I've been told I need more swag.  It also says to not eat junk food, but I'll just ignore that...