I'm finding very little difference between this and your current situation... ?
And since when does a lack of planning on your part constitute some kind of emergency on our part? I have to (possibly) deal with diddymo because you can't afford health insurance? WTF? Maybe I can get you on my plan as a dependent... Cause I love ya like a child, ya know.. An unruly, obnoxious conspiracy theorist curmudgeon child..
I've got frog toggs and cabela bone dry waders with the rubber shoes (one set was cheap, one was a free) so I'm not too worried, but I don't like being told I can't wear felt when there's little evidence at all that I can find that says wearing felt boots is the in any way loosely related to the problem..
But, till I can afford it, I suppose I'll just keep wading in these rubber boots and creeping dangerously close to busting my butt.. (knock on wood, hasn't happened yet)