All That is Stickney

It all started last Thursday or so. After a few days of my elbow hurting me, it was just starting to get better. Then it was my knee that started aching. Intersting, I thought. By Saturday night, it was very painful to move on it. By Sunday morning, I was limping like I should be ringing a bell at Notre Dame. Off to the Garden City Treatment center. They X-Rayed it, took some blood work, including a Lyme test, and sent me on my way, with the same prescription for anti-inflamatories they had me on for my elbow. I stayed out of work the entire week, aching, limping, pills doing seemlingly nothing. I cranked it up a notch and went to my “real” Doctor on Wednesday. He sent me to a specialist, took some more blood and even some fluid from my knee. Pleasant.
A day later, I have Gout. Pseudogout, actually. ( Not “sudo gout” like I initially thought, any *nix geeks reading? ). Wiki Article. When I asked the Dr how I might get this, he said “You wake up.” I take that to mean, there was nothing I couldve done to avoid such a fate. I am still layed up, and probably will be for the weekend, again. Drop by the house if you are going to be in the greater Narragansett Area.