{"id":123,"date":"2007-09-05T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T23:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2007-11-02T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T17:40:41","slug":"disc-prolapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/disc-prolapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Disc Prolapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not me &#8212; Derek.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been complaining about lower back pain for a while now, and finally it got bad enough that he went to see the doctor.  An MRI shows that he has a prolapsed disc in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-images\/DerekDisk.jpg\" alt=\"MRI of Derek's back\" \/><br \/>\nYou can see the prolapsed disk below the center of the picture, where the spinal cord is obscured.<\/p>\n<p>He has an appointment next Monday for an epidural, a mixture of anaesthetic and steroids that sometimes help this kind of problem.  If that doesn&#8217;t help, we&#8217;ll have to take it from there.  Maybe he should get a rolling backpack to take his books to school.  They&#8217;re not cool, but might be worthwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Richard, it seems more reasonable to have back problems at 60,  but he seems awfully young at 19.  Hopefully his age will mean a quick recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not me &#8212; Derek. He&#8217;s been complaining about lower back pain for a while now, and finally it got bad enough that he went to see the doctor. An MRI shows that he has a prolapsed disc in his lower back. You can see the prolapsed disk below the center of the picture, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}