Woke up yesterday in excruciating agony. My foot felt like it had been injected with flaming gasoline. Spent five hours in the emergency room, and the diagnosis comes back: gout.
Gout? I thought that was something fat old Englishmen got in the 18th century. Apparently it's a buildup of uric acid crystals in the muscle. Anyway, they gave me a shot and some pills and some crutches, and sent me home. Still hurts, but the pills seem to be doing the trick. Anyone ever get this before? I tell you, it totally sucks.
