{"id":3020,"date":"2008-06-17T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2008-06-17T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T18:27:00","slug":"ouch-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3020","title":{"rendered":"Ouch, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got off the phone with the orthopedist’s office. I apparently have a herniated disc, which is likely what’s been causing me pain in my left leg. This isn’t great<\/em> news, but it’s nice to put a name to it, especially when it’s something that will hopefully respond well to treatment. I absolutely hurt my back when I was in New Orleans at the end of March*, but I’d felt like I had made a full recovery right away. <\/font><\/p>\n

Well, maybe not. I don’t know that the herniated disc has anything to do with the slight but persistent numbness I’ve been getting in my opposite toe, but I have an appointment with the orthopedist next Wednesday to discuss all of this — and one with a neurologist in July, if it turns out to be unrelated.<\/font><\/p>\n

Again, it’s not great news — hooray! my spine is falling apart! — but it’s preferable to being in pain or discomfort all the time and not knowing why.<\/font><\/p>\n

* Did I mention this? How I went to the convention center across the street from the hotel, carrying maybe forty pounds of books, only to discover (after I first registered at the wrong conference and walked three or four city blocks carrying those damn books) that the conference I was looking for was actually inside<\/em> the hotel? I was in a little bit of agony the rest of that weekend. It didn’t help that the hotel bed was ridiculously soft and high off the ground.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got off the phone with the orthopedist’s office. I apparently have a herniated disc, which is likely what’s been causing me pain in my left leg. This isn’t great news, but it’s nice to put a name to it, especially when it’s something that will hopefully respond well to treatment. I absolutely hurt … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}