Sitting in traffic - the Reading junction of the M4 one morning about 4 years ago, my hip 'pinged' and I couldn't wait to get out of the car. No matter how I sat, wriggled, moved or squidged about, my hip hurt, my knee hurt and my ankle throbbed.
After a couple of weeks of this annoyance, I went to the G.P. He suspected arthritis and sent me for an X-ray ... well, he was right about that.
My hips looked as though they belonged to two different people, as if two different X-rays had been spliced together in the manner of a Victorian Specimen Hunter - I am a Platypus!
Right hip (above the amputed leg) looks absolutely perfect. Right amount of cartilage, perfect spacing around the femoral head - no cracks, Osteophytes, no evidence of wear.
The left hip ... shocker ... looked like an advisory warning image from The Old Age Handbook. More cracks than a thawing pond, osteophytes as numerous as stalactites in a cave, no spacing, no cartilage and my pelvis was twisted and distorted with the left side 3 inches lower than the right.
Hmm.
