RICHinNC
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I had just come back from seeing dad at the hospital. On the way home I stopped by KFC and got me a bucket of chicken as it was late and I didn't want to cook.
So there I was, sitting in my chair in the bedroom, feet up, eating chicken and watching one of the CSI shows where they were putting together a body that had been melted with bleach and other stuff in a tub. I had eaten around dead bodies before so no big deal.
Then, just out of the freaking blue, it feels like some one had snuck up and put a 50 cal round into the joint where my big toe joins my foot on my left foot.
It hurt so intensely and the come on was so fast that I jumped up screaming, threw a chicken leg across the room and jumped up and down on one foot. Dang that hurt.
By Friday my foot was the size of a foot ball and ...duh...I figure its time to go to the doc.
Ok ...are ya sitting down?>?? You ain't gonna believe this.....the doc says I have the GOUT.
The what? The freaking GOUT !!!!
I didn't even know you could get the gout anymore. I thought it was eradicated years ago. Ohhhh no. It is basically a build up of euric (sp ?) acid and it hits the big toe.
He gave me some pills and they work great. At least I can get my foot in my shoe again. Jeeze... I feel old.
I had just come back from seeing dad at the hospital. On the way home I stopped by KFC and got me a bucket of chicken as it was late and I didn't want to cook.
So there I was, sitting in my chair in the bedroom, feet up, eating chicken and watching one of the CSI shows where they were putting together a body that had been melted with bleach and other stuff in a tub. I had eaten around dead bodies before so no big deal.
Then, just out of the freaking blue, it feels like some one had snuck up and put a 50 cal round into the joint where my big toe joins my foot on my left foot.
It hurt so intensely and the come on was so fast that I jumped up screaming, threw a chicken leg across the room and jumped up and down on one foot. Dang that hurt.
By Friday my foot was the size of a foot ball and ...duh...I figure its time to go to the doc.
Ok ...are ya sitting down?>?? You ain't gonna believe this.....the doc says I have the GOUT.
The what? The freaking GOUT !!!!
I didn't even know you could get the gout anymore. I thought it was eradicated years ago. Ohhhh no. It is basically a build up of euric (sp ?) acid and it hits the big toe.
He gave me some pills and they work great. At least I can get my foot in my shoe again. Jeeze... I feel old.
