On a More Positive Note or Two…

The gout has been in near-remission for days now.  It’s easy to make it flare up, and the vicinity of the toe is stiff and constantly on the edge, but I can walk, wear shoes, and so forth in a way I couldn’t for several days.  The biggest thing that seems to trigger it back up to speed is hydrochlorothiazide, so I have been mainly skipping that.  Considering that my blood pressure had gotten so contolled that it bordered on overly low, that should be fine.

Shoot, there was something else and I can’t remember.

I’m close to being able to move the bookcase that has to relocate to make reorganizing the office in the apartment possible.

For some reason this post reminded me of my plans for supper, which require starting the process any moment now.  I’m going to try to make something resembling my sister’s famous boneless ribs, but using the crockpot instead of the oven.  That and I got a steal on southern style boneless ribs, and I believe it’s country style that would be more normal.  My thought is to sear all around the outside of each one, not cooking through but giving an exterior browning.  Then in a sauce pan, make a sauce, which will make it easy to flavor just right.  I think she uses molasses, which I don’t have, but oh well.  Then the ribs go in the crock and cook in the sauce for a few hours.  It ought to be edible, at least.  While I’m at it, I need to freeze the rest of the meat.  I got a bunch of steak, in family packs so it was $1.59 instead of $1.69, which was already great.  We had the best steak I’ve ever made for steak burritos the past couple nights.  Plus a bunch of the ribs, figuring worst case they’d turn into barbecue shredded pork.

1. Not a surprise that the water pill makes the gout worse.  Keep hydrating to flush that crap out!  Have you tried cherries/ drinking Cherry juice?  Old wives’ remedy, I know, but it’s supposed to be fabulous for gout.

   Posted by caltechgirl  on  08/13  at  03:30 PM  from 
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