fighting the offending foot

Here is Emma, fighting sleep...cute, yes? But Emma still has issues, issues we do not know how to help her with, and when she gets sleepy or a bit nervous, the battle begins. Remember her tattered ears? She still needlessly scratches them(actually just the one, her left one, the really damaged one) and I am afraid of further damage. At this point, it is really just a leftover nervous habit since there is no infection left to scratch...but it is like that foot has a mind of it's own and it's talking only to Emma... Here it comes, the Offending Foot. It just seems to rise up into the air, unbidden...unwanted...unneeded...unloved...unhinged!!!! "Emma, this is your foot talking to you...."
Resist, Emma, resist. Think of your tattered ears!!!! There is no need for this anymore!!!! Emma is looking at her foot like it has just said something horrific... something like, "Emma, I, your foot, COMMAND you to scratch your ear!!! You CANNOT defy me!!! I am The Foot!!!!"
Fight it, Emma. Fight hard!!!! It does become a struggle sometimes, good vs evil, light vs dark, Emma vs Foot.
And sometimes, she punishes not her ears, but the Offending Foot... another nervous habit that concerns me because she is not just nibbling here but gnawing.
What do you think the Offending Foot just said to her?!?
It must have been something bad cuz she is chomping down now like there's not enough time in this lifetime to punish that foot...
....that Offending Foot.