Gout, I Has It

[chris_gerrib]

My US readers will be familiar with the Comcast commercial in which the rich guy with the cheesy Eastern European accent says, "Opulence. I has it."

Well, "gout, I has it." I've had high uric acid for a couple of years, and this morning my knee gave me a painful wake-up call at oh-four-ayem. Fortunately, this particular flare-up responded well to plain-old aspirin, so we're doing that for now. In a week or so, and pending the arrival of a confirmatory blood test, the doc will put me on allopurinol.

In other news, one of my key IT staffers quit. (Considering that I am one-fourth of the department, they're all key staffers.) He's going off to Iraq to be a defense contractor at three times what I'm paying him. So, if you know a PC network person looking for a job in Chicago, have them contact me.

Lastly, my Rotary club marches in the Darien 4th of July parade. This year, our vehicle wouldn't start on the morning of the parade, so we didn't march.

It has been a less-than-good day or so.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

M has been told to mainline Ibuprofen and come back if it doesn't go down of it's own accord in about a week.

But. Ouch.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

Well, personally as far as gout attacks go this one was mild. Today (24 hours after first flare-up) I'm pain free and fully mobile.

M has my sympathies, but it's not always a diet thing. My grandma eats like a bird and still has it. Certain foods (such as shrimp) set her off.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Her brother gets it badly, so there's a degree of genetics there. My father had it once, but it seemed to be a side effect of the Blood Pressure medication he was on at the time.