Stop drinking 禁酒

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

The doctor stopped my drinking sake last week. 7 days have passed since I stopped my drinking. I have never experienced this long prohibition for 30 years. And the doctor said yesterday another week of prohibition would be very very good for your health and your family. I nodded singing the same refrain "Prohibition is better than no liquor at all" in my heart.

I felt a little pain on my right foot on 24/Aug. The symptom seemed the one of the twisted ankle with swelling. Then the pain once disappeared around the middle of September. I felt so happy and did a long distance walk. The same symptom came back to me a few days later. I finaly went to the hospital near my office. The doctor did not suspect twisted ankle, but gout, and immediately did a blood test. The first result was negative. The second test of yesterday was negative again. The swollen ankle is now almost down. I received another set of medicine for another week. Hoping the 3rd blood test would be the final.

酒がなくなるよりは禁酒のほうがまし。

先週、ドクターストップで禁酒をすることになりました。今日で7日目になりますが、私の30年の飲酒歴で、こんなに長いのは初めてです。昨日の再検診で、私の健康と家族のために、とさらに1週間の禁酒を言い渡されました。「無くなるよりは禁酒のほうがまし」と、私はうなづきました。

そもそも、去る8月24日に右足に軽い痛みを感じ、てっきり捻挫でもしたのか、と思っていました。その後一旦は寝込むくらいの結構な痛みはあったものの、9月半ばには症状もなくなり、ついつい長距離をウォーキング。数日後、再び同じ症状が再発してしまい、今回ばかりはと近くの病院へ。医者は捻挫ではなく痛風を疑い、早速血液検査をしたが数値は出ず。昨日、2回目の検査を受けるも、再度痛風関連の数値は出ず。未だに原因は不明。3度目の正直を期待しつつ、追加1週間分の薬を受け取りました。