Another Christmas in the books. I hope y’all had a nice day. My wife gave me the opportunity to opt out of visiting the in-laws, but being the magnanimous guy I am, I decided to pull on a pair of shoes (doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a painful process at the moment) and go along. It was only for pound cake, pumpkin pie, and water (I declined my mother-in-law’s rather insistent – incessant, even – offers to dump rum on the cake; not only was I driving, but I don’t really like rum). Other than my father-in-law becoming somewhat morose, it was a fairly painless experience).<\/p>\n
I’m sitting here at work right now (Wednesday has to be the all-time crappiest day of the week to have x-mas on) and even though I’m not really one of these Christmas-type people (never was the same after my dad died, and once my mom was gone I pretty much lost all interest), I can’t think of anything more depressing than working on the day after Christmas. Fortunately, I think the rest of the world is off today, so hopefully everybody will leave me the hell alone.<\/p>\n
At least I’m not hung over this morning. Now that I’ve read that beer is particularly bad for gout (which is the diagnosis I’m going with for my foot), I suppose I need to quit drinking it – at least until my foot stops hurting. All work and no beer makes me a very unhappy boy. <\/p>\n
The pain has now mostly moved to about the middle of the outside of my foot. Since there’s no joint there, I’m assuming this is due to the swelling. I read that baking soda is good for neutralizing the uric acid, so I’ve been taking that several times a day. We’ll see how that goes. Of course, the sodium is bad for the high blood pressure so I’m taking magnesium for that and drinking lots of water. I also read that coffee is good (keeps the kidneys flowing), so I’ve upped my intake to two cups a day (depending on what you consider a “cup” – my mug is about 14 oz, so two of those). <\/p>\n
Oh well, back to work, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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