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I think Obama has made an excellent choice with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. What will be interesting is seeing how the Republicans position themselves in opposing her -- there are going to be some strange contortions as they try to avoid looking like anti-female, anti-Hispanic bigots, especially when their own President George HW Bush was the person who first nominated her to a federal judgeship, and she has twice gone through Senate confirmations. Good luck there, folks. Would you dare try to filibuster this nomination?
A couple weeks back the big toe on my left foot was giving me fits. It felt like it was about twice as large as it should be, I was having shooting pains in the joint, and putting any weight on it was excruciating. I was hobbling around like an old man. Did I go to the doctor? Well, uh, no... I hit the Tylenol and Advil, and it got a little better each day and finally went away.
Then last night, around 2:00 AM, I woke up with excruciating pain in the joint again. I limped to the bathroom and took some Tylenol, then (about an hour later) Advil -- neither really seemed to kill the pain. I finally got back to sleep around 4:30 AM. Denise, umm, insisted that this time I was calling the doc. So I did, having no interest in going through this again.
The doc looked at my toe, flexed the join once or twice, felt it with the back of his hand. "Gout," he said immediately.
Gout. That sounds like such a geezer disease... Not that I'm not in good company: evidently the roll call of famous gout sufferers includes John Milton, Henry the 8th, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Queen Anne, Oliver Cromwell, Galileo, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry James, Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx. (I note that the list is almost exclusively male; I assume women also suffered from gout, but they are notably absent from online lists of gout sufferers).
I was prescribed a course of NAIDS, had to go get a blood test to check uric acid levels, and we'll go from there. I also have a diet sheet which excludes much of what people like to eat. We'll see how well I do with that -- no promises.
Gout. Hand me my cane, so I can shake it at the kids and yell at them to get the hell off my lawn.
Then last night, around 2:00 AM, I woke up with excruciating pain in the joint again. I limped to the bathroom and took some Tylenol, then (about an hour later) Advil -- neither really seemed to kill the pain. I finally got back to sleep around 4:30 AM. Denise, umm, insisted that this time I was calling the doc. So I did, having no interest in going through this again.
The doc looked at my toe, flexed the join once or twice, felt it with the back of his hand. "Gout," he said immediately.
Gout. That sounds like such a geezer disease... Not that I'm not in good company: evidently the roll call of famous gout sufferers includes John Milton, Henry the 8th, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Queen Anne, Oliver Cromwell, Galileo, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry James, Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx. (I note that the list is almost exclusively male; I assume women also suffered from gout, but they are notably absent from online lists of gout sufferers).
I was prescribed a course of NAIDS, had to go get a blood test to check uric acid levels, and we'll go from there. I also have a diet sheet which excludes much of what people like to eat. We'll see how well I do with that -- no promises.
Gout. Hand me my cane, so I can shake it at the kids and yell at them to get the hell off my lawn.
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