Friday 01/09/2026
Well, one foot, the right, developed “front ankle pain” and swelling along the top of the foot. It had actually started Tuesday night, and I exacerbated it with all the walking on Thursday.
Except for the location, the symptoms are of gout. I usually get gout in one or the other big toe. But a long time ago I absorbed the medical latin for the symptoms of gout (or any infection): rubor, dolor, tumor, calor. Redness, pain, swelling, heat. Dolor I’ve had right along. This morning I noticed the swelling. Tonight there is starting to be some color (it’s very handy, having two feet so you can compare them and see one is pinker (handy feet, he he)) and, putting a hand on the top of one foot and then the other, the calor is also there. So, presumptively, I have a gout attack in a new location. The “Talus” or the tendons overlying it.
So I did not join Joanne for our usual Friday morning “muffin run”. She insisted on bringing me the bread I would have bought at Trader Joe’s, had I been able to go.
I did walk, at 10:30, the quarter mile to the dentist for the dental hygiene I had to skip yesterday. Otherwise I had a quiet day, played the guitar a bit, read some. Went to the song-along at 7pm.
Codgerville 