Reality and Beer

I think it is time to face up to a very difficult reality. I have to stop drinking beer. My old friend is killing me.

I shared a pitcher with Mark last evening and I had a couple beers the day before. Today, the gout is back with a vengeance.  My right knee is inflamed and I can even feel a twinge of soreness in my right big toe.

This does not bode well for our plans to go skiing tomorrow. I discovered from our last venture to the mountains that the worst part of skiing with a gout knee is getting on the chairlift. You have the heavy boot and ski that naturally want to follow gravity and cause a severe bend of the knee. A bend that the knee suffering from gout is not very happy about. And then that causes me to not be very happy.

I'm back on Cholchicine and I will be drinking a vast amount of water today.