10.7.5 Missing Recovery HD, Need to repair permissions before upgrade?

I ran Disk Utility on my sluggish MBP and was informed that the disk permissions (and the disk?) need to be repaired.
I inherited this computer, and used CCC to migrate from my old computer with a clone.  Now, it appears the Recovery HD is missing. 
I did a bit of research, and it seems installing Mavericks on top of all these issues is not advised until I repair the permissions using the present OS, but I do not have access to a similar computer running Lion in order to build a Recovery HD on an external drive. 
Can someone help me to understand the best path to take to repair the permissions?  (I would prefer to stay w/ 10.7.5 but thought moving to the new OS would repair permissions and so became open to that.  It is an older machine (c.2009) so I would prefer to stay with what has up until now been working, but am open to any feasible solutions, including Mavericks.)
Thank you!  

The Internet Recovery and Recovery HD partition are the same thing?
Closer to the point: What do I do now?
I am DL Mavericks and am going to create an external boot drive, then will boot to that and attempt to repair the disk, then will install Mavericks on top of that (if need be.)

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