If yours are open at the toe/foot, try putting a plastic bag over your foot and then slip the stocking on, should help it glide then can pull the bag off once they’re up. They also make sock aid devices that your surgeon may be able to prescribe for you, especially since it’s after surgery!

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Was it the guy on Love Is Blind🥲 he’d make these weird chicken smoothies