Gout ....?

Ten days ago Boyd started getting a pain in his left foot.
(Backtracking........)
This foot has had two operations on it. Apparently when he was a young teenager he dropped a brick on it and broke one of his foot bones. Then in his late teens, he had to have an operation on this foot because he had developed osteomylitis in the broken bone. I also remember him getting the streptococcus virus in this same foot 6 years ago.
(Back to the future..........)
The pain got so bad that he drove himself to the hospital at midnight! He came back with a diagnosis of GOUT and a couple of pills. Still the pain persisted, and Boyd was not convinced that it was gout.... he was sure it was a reoccurance of osteomylitis.The next morning our local GP administered a strong anti-inflammatory jab and diagnosed gout. Even though Boyd is meant to stay away from anything anti-inflammatory, he was in such agony that they gave it to him anyway.
Two days later he was at the emergency room for another jab! They did blood tests, and discovered his uric acid levels in his blood were sky high. Yip, another symptom of bad kidney function.
He has had to incorporate more alkaline foods into his diet so that his system becomes less acidic.
Since he has started doing this the pain has started to lessen.

Good News times two !

Yesterday our boys had blood taken to check the state of their kidneys. Because this strain of Nephrotic Syndrome seems to be quite prevalent in Boyd's side of the family, we decided to have the two boys tested. Their kidneys are just fine ..... hallelujah! We were worried because Cooldude's urine was very foamy ..... this can be a sign that too much protein is present in his blood. Another bit of good news, is that Boyd's latest test results show that his kidney function has slightly improved ...... another hallelujah !!