doctor, doctor - gimme the news!

this nagging hip & leg pain won't give me a break so went to the orthopaedist today and he said my problems were firstly, degenerative disc disease and secondly, malaligned hips. ddd is just a fancy way of saying "getting old" b/c it's not really a disease at all, just something that happens with age when the wee tiny pillows between the bones of the spine lose all their feather fluffiness and get all squished down. less cushion = ouchie. malaligned hips explains why the right-leg cuff of all my pants drags around on the floor while the left-leg cuff rides too high. not terribly noticeable unless you want to do something like pound away at your legs for hours on end.

anyway, that's the diagnosis. next week starts trying to fix it with a bit of the ol' PT.