"I want a doctor. To take a picture. So I can look at [you] from inside as well."

Quite fascinating to look at yourself from the inside out. When the doc put up the x-rays and started explaining them, I asked if it made her curious about the top half. She agreed that x-rays of only the low back is kind of a tease.

So the outcome, beside the painful, unsightly molehill on my wrist, is that my spine is still crooked, in two different ways and I have a degenerative disc. The good doc wanted to call it "Degenerative Disc Disease" but I think that's a tad dramatic. At least look at the rest of the spine before you get all global on me. Maybe it's just the one disc that lost a little cushion. Not a whole disease.

Would you like to see? You're kind of curious, aren't you?

So . . . here you can see the Curvy McCurvyson. And if you click on the photo, it gets bigger -- if you start counting from the first full vertebra you can see at the top there, and go down, 1, 2, 3, 4 - the 3rd and 4th start to twist on their axis. Axises? Axi? Whatever.

So -- no wonder that my back hurts and my knee hurts and I probably shouldn't be running. I'm all twisty.

This is a little more difficult to see, but it shows a [normal] curve of the low back and [normal] space between some of the vertebrae, and then not enough space between the two lowest (on this photo).
I think I'm going to have to go back to get some more x-rays. I suspect that if my low back is curvy like that, my upper back might be havin' its own party.
Unfortunately, I don't think hitting scoliosis or degenerative discs with a bible creates any marked improvement.

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