The Gout

The gout is an easy disease to make fun of, a la "Well you drank all that beer and ate a bunch of hot dogs, serves you right you fat fuck." And it's a tuff disease to defend, a la "Well I drank all that beer and ate all those hot dogs, serves me right you fat fuck." I understand the eyeball-rolling "what an idiot" guffawing as I come hobbling up. Have your fun, I get it. But it's also no fun sitting in a car service and having to start fishing the money out of your pocket about 5 blocks before you're home so you can adjust your whole body in a way to affect as little amount of excrutiating pain as possible on your ankle. Fuck.