Gout, What A Bitch!

If ever you have gotten a dose of this disease you will never forget it. Not ever. Never. It's the greatest bitch I have ever come up against. It's a disease that strikes when you are most comfortable, rarely giving you a heads up that you are in for a night of crying and swearing to the heavens that you will never drink alcohol or touch greasy food again. The unfortunate nature of this bitch is that just when you are on the mend and get active again, just when you have forgotten that night of pain, that hot antagonistic swollen bitch of an ankle, just when you feel carefree and light and easy and you pick up that glass of champagne and clink it with your companion - she will strike again. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance they say - and so it must be with gout - the Al Qaeda of diseases.