Splendid...just splendid! Another case of gout in advance of the spring pilgrimage and the opening of my softball season on Sunday morning. I'm barely able to walk without excruciating pain. I couldn't even put a pair of dress shoes on this morning. And it's on my non-Jesus foot to boot!!!I blame three people for my ongoing recurrences of gout:
1) My Dad: He must've passed some gout gene to me. He's been in pretty good shape his whole life and suffers regularly from gout. Thanks, Dad. A nice big inheritance might offset some of the pain and suffering!
2) My physician: She knew of my gout recurrences and put me on a diuretic (water pill) anyway for my high blood pressure. Of course, being a biochemist, i should have predicted that the pill would exacerbate the condition, but I'm all about the blaming of others for my problems.
3) My own fat ass: Okay, I'm not all about blaming others, but would it kill me to drop a few pounds?
I'm loading up on colchicine, coffee and cherries!!! Since there is really no good therapeutic drug for gout yet (Savient Pharmaceuticals is working on a new drug, Puricase, that I hope gets approved ASAP!), I hope to god I'm good to go for this weekend!
God-damned Toe-knuckle!
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Saved by the Pilgrimage!
I want to know who is going to wait on him hand & foot all weekend since he can hardly walk.
Usually 19 year old female gymnasts help the pain subside :)
And don't believe Tay for a minute when she says that she's happy to see me go this weekend. She lives to slave over me, right honey? :)
Good to hear that you will be at the pilgrimage. I thought the "early" word had you as a "no show". Whoever has you in the death pool has to be feeling good, right now. F'n gout? Isn't that an old man's disease. What's next, Metamucil so you can take a shiite?
Hamdog
You are not the first person to be brought down by a painful toe problem! :-)
Hope it gets better soon...
Irish
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