Getting Testy About My Health

Speaking of being curious, I had a physical recently, and as mentioned here, was declared healthy.  Barring the results of the blood tests.

That was all the normal stuff like blood sugar, cholesterol and whatever, some kidney function stuff, and uric acid.  the last one I think he threw on there because he saw what my right big toe looked like.  I was having a gout attack, which had just flared way up and I hadn’t identified as such yet.  It hasn’t completely gone away, but at least it’s milder.  As was the case when I got the blood drawn, which would explain that not being a concern.

Ironic that it should happen right after we discovered cauliflower* is our new favorite vegetable, as it’s one of the worst offenders for purines.  We’d recently had both that and asparagus in quantity.

Anyway, I hadn’t gotten results yet, and figured any day now I’d get a call ordering me to hurry in for some insulin or artery anti-hardeners or something. 

Since Deb was there today, she asked if they’d gotten the results.  The doctor couldn’t remember the details offhand, but nothing had been bad and he’d given it to the girls to send out to me.  Cool!

I’ll still be interested to see the numbers, but what a relief.  Not that it’s that big a surprise; I always confound people medically.

* Cauliflower turns out to be a good substitute for potato.  I baked a chicken this weekend, tastiest yet, but we only had two marginal potatoes left.  Baked those to split between us.  My gravy was also the best yet, and given the limited gravy venue, we used it on cauliflower too.  Yum!

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