1 You will not have joint pain or stiffness, but this does not mean your gout is cured. 2  You will still need treatment to prevent chronic gout. 3  Chronic tophaceous gout: Without treatment, large amounts of uric acid crystals, called tophi, collect around your joints. 4  The crystals can destroy or deform the joints.
Share. By Scott P. Richert. Question: Lent, the period of prayer and fasting in preparation for Easter, is 40 days long, but there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and Easter.
Thus, in order for Lent to include 40 days on which fasting could occur, it had to be expanded to six full weeks (with six days of fasting in each week) plus four extra daysâ Ash Wednesday and the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that follow it. Six times six is thirty-six, plus four equals forty.