So, the good news is that, according to the blood that was drawn on Tuesday, I don't have gout. Uric acid, and its precursors, is dead center of normal range. It's not pseudo-gout, either; calcium is also in the middle of the normal range. Other than the sugar being a little high (because the test is normed for a fasting blood draw, not blood drawn ( Read more... )

Yesterday, for the first time that I can recall, I was diagnosed with a problem I recall my father, but not my mother, having. Gout. You know, that disease that only the indolent rich used to get, from eating too much meat and gravies and drinking too much. In modern America, it seems that someone who works at an entry-level job (again! Grr! Argh ( Read more... )