{"id":3076,"date":"2008-07-18T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2008-07-18T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T15:59:44","slug":"still-with-the-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3076","title":{"rendered":"Still with the ouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;m getting a spinal steroid injection for my herniated disc &#8212; likely the first of two such injections &#8212; next Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Which means that, between now and then, I&#8217;m not supposed to take any aspirin or anti-inflammatory medication &#8212; like the Aleve that I sometimes think is the only thing getting me through my mornings. It doesn&#8217;t get rid of the pain, but it does take some of the edge off. I&#8217;ve been taking two twice a day for many weeks now.<\/p>\n<p>Physical therapy seems to be helping a little bit. I&#8217;ve definitely felt better after each of the three sessions I&#8217;ve had, and I plan to keep going. But I&#8217;m still in considerable discomfort throughout the rest of the day &#8212; especially when I&#8217;m sitting, which is unfortunately close to the sum total of my job. Getting up every fifteen or twenty minutes to walk around or stretch isn&#8217;t impossible, but I&#8217;d be lying if I said this didn&#8217;t have me concerned about my <a href=\"http:\/\/lacapfest2008.blogspot.com\/\">travel plans<\/a> at the end of August. It may also factor into why I haven&#8217;t actually yet <i>made<\/i> those plans. (Even the thought of sitting through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0468569\/\">a movie<\/a> this weekend has me a little worried.)<\/p>\n<p>I really want to avoid surgery. PT is helping to treat the root of the problem. Hopefully the injections will help treat the symptom.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting a spinal steroid injection for my herniated disc &#8212; likely the first of two such injections &#8212; next Tuesday afternoon. Which means that, between now and then, I&#8217;m not supposed to take any aspirin or anti-inflammatory medication &#8212; like the Aleve that I sometimes think is the only thing getting me through my &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3076\">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":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"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=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}