DRAG0NFLIGHT Wrote:So the hospital appears to have been right on the money. It's gout, and the colchicine broke that cycle.Why do I have a suspicion as to which hospital it was. (Note lack of question mark.)
Unfortunately...
The x-ray department wrenched my foot one side and the other taking pictures of the ankle to check for breakages. In the process, they inflicted a bad sprain on my knee. So basically no sooner does the pain in my ankle finally fade away, but my knee is in screaming agony, and I can't move. Icing and elevating the knee finally brought the swelling down last night, and I got a decent night's sleep for the first time in a week. The ankle plus the new knee injury probably totals several months of healing and rehabilitation in order to get walking ability back.
Sometimes the universe hates me more than others. This holiday appears to be one of those times...
Are you home now?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012