Just a short note

Greetings all
It's now almost the middle of January, the temperature out doors is cold at best. I sure like the warm weather better. I think Spring and Fall are my favorite times of year. Not too hot and not too cold.

I have been gout free for some time now and it has been great. I'm not doing anything special, I take my allopurnal and have cut back on the sugars and calories. Not enough to contribute any significant weight loss.

Just wanted to give an update.

Kevin

My December 2010 Post

Here we are the end of December. The new year is just around the corner, with all its new adventures a head of us. If we're lucky the green headed gout monster will not be one of those adventures. This promises to be a year of challenges, political as well as personal. We can affect the political, but our area of greater influence will be in our personal lives. I plan on taking several steps to improve my health and quality of life. Take a look at your life and find one or two areas that will make your life more meaningful to you and your loved ones. Set some goals and establish mileposts, measure your progress and adjust your goals.

I have been gout free, or at least mostly for about a year or more. I need to loose about 130 lbs this will help lower my risk of having high uric acid. Anyway good luck with your goals and wishes for the coming year.

Best wishes

Kevin

The Last Several Weeks!

Here it is, the day after Thanksgiving and my wifes birthday. I'm sure I don't know what I did to deserve such a wonderful woman to share my life with. She has been my best friend from the day we met, and will be until the end of eternity. Thank you Lorie and Happy Birthday!

Well a few weeeks ago I got the gout again. I was in the ball of my foot and felt like I was walking on a marble. It lasted several days and then slowly went away. Then shortly after I got a cold, spent one day in bed and have been coughing now for about three days. It's one of those coughs that tickle in the chest and won't move when you cough. I hate that kind of cough!

Well Hope all had a good Thanksgiving

No gout today.

This morning I woke up and felt pain in my toes, I thought "oh no", here comes the gout again. After a few more half asleep and half awake moments I realized that it wasn't gout but just my usual morning stiffness. So today I thought I'd look up some other blogs or web sites about gout. I found this one " Gout Relief Cures " . Check it out and see if you like it as much as I did.

Have a great gout free day.

The end of Aug 2010

Greetings all

Here it is the end of August and I have had a little gout in my wrist the last couple of days, but not bad enough to stop me form being active.
The work up the canyon is coming to an end and so I'll need to come up with more projects to keep me busy. I called about some volunteer work with "Meals on Wheels" I think that would be a fun thing to do.

Well I better run, sorry for the short entry but I'm having a hard time staying focused.

Stay gout free.

The gout monster raises its ugly head

Greetings

Well here it is Aug 17Th 2010, and I have gout! I felt it starting to come on last night and by morning I was having difficulty walking. I kept moving cause that seems to help and then at around 10:00 AM I took some Colchicine then at around 1:00 PM I took 4 Ibuprofen and by 8:00 PM the pain was just about gone. I'm not sure it'll stay way until morning but for now it OK.

Well that's it for now. I'm still helping my son up the canyon as camp host. We meet a lot of interesting people. I'm not sure what I'll be doing when this ends but I'll have to find something cause I have to be busy.

Have a gout free week, Month and well year.

Kevin

Another month as camp host, and very little gout!

Here we are in August, where has the summer gone? Before we know it we will be wishing for warmer weather and wondering where all the snow is coming from. Winter has it's pluses though, life slows down a little and we can take some time time to reflect, or in my case wonder how I'm going to pay next months bills. Of course I do that all summer anyway.

My wife and I have been talking about the bills and planning ways to reduce our overhead. We have decided to sell many of our items that we can live without, like our vehicles, the tractor business. We have decided to make our adult children pay for things that they have conveniently neglected to re-reimburse us for, like their auto insurance and certain living expenses. May be if our plan is successful we will be empty nesters - ha ha.

Well since this is a blog about gout I should spend some time talking about that for a while. Over the last several weeks the fight against gout has gone well. I woke up with it in my knee one morning, I didn't take anything for it, but as the day progressed it went away completely. I've also had it in my toes and wrist a little but not so much that I had to stop working. I have had touch of the old arthritis and achey muscles mainly in the morning and if I sit for an extended period of time it's hard to get moving again, I think my diet is causing that.

Well I better run for now. In my next post I am going to post some photos of the camp where my Son and I are hosting.

Good blogging