{"id":2004,"date":"2007-08-10T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/the-cliffs-notes-version-given-through-the-haze\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T01:40:00","slug":"the-cliffs-notes-version-given-through-the-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/the-cliffs-notes-version-given-through-the-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cliffs Notes Version, given through the haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning: Much, much worse.  We decided that to go right to Oschner&#8217;s Emergency Department after dropping the kids off at school.  I showered and tried to get dressed&#8230; only couldn&#8217;t do it.  Spasms eventually put me, half-naked, on the floor: paralyzed.   I arrived at Oschner via ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line: bones are fine, MRI showed some herniation between Lumbars 3 and 4, but was negative.  This is a muscle injury.  Serious pain meds (Dilaudid) took several doses to have any effect; pain caused extreme nausea\/vomiting when I would stand to use the bathroom (the first few hours they used a catheter).  Every bit of this was humiliating and simply awful.<\/p>\n<p>Now: trying to stick to muscle-relaxers and coedine (and nausea meds) so that I can nurse Kate.  I thought that she would wean this week, as she hadn&#8217;t nursed since Monday morning.  Wrong!  She crawled up on me and pulled at my shirt moments after seeing me when Paul arrived with the kids this afternoon.  I had stopped taking the dilaudid yesterday just in case.  The bummer is that without it, my movement is much more limited.  I am still going with everyone to the beach, but won&#8217;t be doing any of the activities we&#8217;ve been dreaming of doing&#8230; sailing, swimming in the ocean, long walks for photography, etc.  But at least I can be there!  PA friend Scott (who works in Ortho at Tulane) has been a great resource.  Bottom line is that it will be a 4-6 week healing time, but I won&#8217;t be like this forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning: Much, much worse. We decided that to go right to Oschner&#8217;s Emergency Department after dropping the kids off at school. I showered and tried to get dressed&#8230; only couldn&#8217;t do it. Spasms eventually put me, half-naked, on the floor: paralyzed. I arrived at Oschner via ambulance. The bottom line: bones are fine, MRI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}