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Happy birthday, alexseanchai, altariel, chance and rembrandtswife!

Took my ageing bones and muscles and cartilage to the doctor....

Have been having trouble of late (on top of the usual ongoing ouchie bits for which I already do an assortment of physio exercises accumulated over the years) with my right shoulder and my left hip, and made an appointment to see A GP (there are a plethora at the practice I go to and I thought I would take one who was available at a suitable time of day without too long a lapse of time).

And converted the standard phone appointment to a face to face one with relatively little trouble, and went in this afternoon.

The GP was v young, but this may be me ('la, you no longer have a pot of leeches on your desk, how medical science has advanced since my youth'), but v good. Advised contacting the Musculo-Skeletal (physio) self-referral people re the shoulder, and gave me a referral for X-ray of (both) hips.

(In fact The Old Trouble with right hip was kicking up last night moan whinge, so this is probably prudent.)

It turns out that the X-ray service is drop-in, so I can be about that, but the link to the MSK service is timing out, groan.

Anyway dashing (???) about doing more medical stuff may be a bit on hold as partner also needs to go to see GP fairly expeditiously about an ear thing.

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In other news, a chapter has come back for urgent attention to copy edits (SIGH) just I am in the process of moving towards publication of the latest episode in the Interminable Saga.