The photo above was taken about 5 years ago. I wasn’t in my 30s yet. Oh, I was also 20 lbs smaller than I am now. I laugh every time I see it, because my trainer at the time used to always say, “get your stomach out your shirt!” On this particular day, I reached […]
Last week I disclosed my surprising diagnosis that was based on some excruciating pain in my right toe. Yep, you guessed it (or maybe you didn’t). Gout! Please say it ain’t so. I thought I had to be well into my 50s, eat pork chops and steaks before I could ever see this happening to […]
I’ll never forget it. It was the night of April Fool’s. I wish the pain I felt that day was a joke, but it was all real. I remember laying in bed around 10:00 pm and feeling this burning sensation on the side of my right big toe. As tired as I was, sleep was […]