The speaker's older Vietnamese neighbor Long had severe gout pain in his knee and couldn't walk. After refusing help at first, Long finally accepted pain-relief patches. The next morning, Long still had them on and said he felt good enough to walk together.
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My neighbor, um, he's my, he's my walking partner at, uh, at night and during the, in the morning. And, uh, he apparently had gotten, um, um, gout in his knee. Mm-hmm. And so he calls me and he says, well, I can't walk in the morning. I can't walk this morning. I said, well, what's wrong? And he says, well, my knee's out. My knee's acting up. And he said, it's gout. I said, well, I said, let me put, let me get, uh, let me get some patches. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's okay. So he's an older Vietnamese guy, and, um, he says, uh, no, I'm, I'm okay, it's good. So that night he calls me, he says, nope, I'm not— I can't walk. He says, it's really bad. I said, are you sure that you don't want me? Nope, nope. So the next morning he calls me, he says, I need those patches. So I went and patched him in the morning, and that evening we walked. He said, he said, I'm good. And then that following morning, he still had the same patches on that I patched him. I said, Long, you're supposed to take those patches off. Oh no, I'm feeling real good now.