Two days of painful hobbling plus one day Gout attack!

I am just recovering from an interesting time with my body. I hate interesting times with my body. Coming down the steps from the bedroom in my fifth wheel trailer I slipped and fell hard. Really twisted my left hip and knee. Went on to swim class that morning and that night's basketball game. By then both hip and knee were so painful I asked my daughter Kerry for her crutches. (she had some from a hip operation)

The next night I developed a terrible pain in the top of my left big toe. (put a band aid on it so that it would not contact my covers).

The next morning I was due to give a blood sample to the VA Clinic in Monroe. I told the nurse that I would like to give the blood, get a flu shot, and also get a shot for the pain in my left big toe. She did the first two and directed me to wait to see a nurse about the big toe.

While I was waiting I suddenly realized that the painful big toe was from a gout attack. 20 or so years ago I had several painful gout attacks. I was directed to take a daily pill of allopurinol. Wonderful! no more gout attacks for twenty years. This recent attack only lasted about 24 hours. The pain went away. My knee and hip got over the fall. Very little pain is so nice.

I have an appointment with Dr Carter (VA) next Thursday.