LoL! Gout is arthritis - hereditary, 4% of the population has it, and they are now saying it doesn't matter what you eat cause it is gonna flare up from time to time anyway. Not sure i agree w that but dehydration surely does - i usually get it while at beach or boating vacations if not drinking enough water. Gout - for me it is often like walking on a knife or saw blade, then it settles into a hot swollen foot with shooting pains, and lastly into a dull aching throb that won't hold weight. Have crutches and a cane ready to go if it happens.
My last gout flareup was triggered by grocery store fried chicken fer dinner, woke up with that sensation - took 8-9 days to walk again. This one kicked my tail - flareup was a travel day in taking my dad to see family 5 hrs away (i drive), then spent the next 2 days boating and fishing, next day drive him back home, then back to work. Did miss 1 day of work - couldn't put a sheet over the foot (no sleep) and it was giving me fever, swets, and chills. Worst thing I had to do was get out of a tub shower - figured it out but took a bit - thought was going to work but wasn't to be. Went to dr. next day for the magic medicine and 3-4 days later could walk again, without cane or crutches.
I usually chuckle when folks make jokes about gout. Just something I gotta live with.
What is the definition we are going by for wimps here? If you can't climb a 10,000 ft mtn or can't handle heat or cold? Pain? Work long hours? Doing all this stuff without whining? Beat everyone with yer Bruce Lee skills? Lift 100# and carry it to 1,200 ft higher elevation? What is it?
My definition is for someone to do what needs to get done when it needs to get done without whining or complaining. There is always someone bigger, stronger, tougher, badder, and meaner. I know a few tough guys who would be classified as wimps if we applied the whiner rule above.
Had some guys from a previous job helping me move and they slid a gun safe down the stairs, crushed a fellow's toe. Popped it like a zit. His 2 buddies razzed him ceaselessly, my wife gave him an Advil and they finished the move. Found out he had surgery a day or two later to remove bone fragments... LoL! Also know/knew 2 old folks who have had appendix rupture - one kept walking 6 miles a day with it and the other went a week or more before going to dr. Both almost died. Some folks are super tough.
