{"id":37379,"date":"2025-10-19T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37379"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:18:01","slug":"admitted-to-qmc-with-a-degenerative-cervical-myelopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/37379","title":{"rendered":"Admitted to QMC with a degenerative cervical myelopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collapsed and both my hands stopped working. Operation and lots of rehab to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-nhs-inform wp-block-embed-nhs-inform\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wmVp2S96tn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/illnesses-and-conditions\/muscle-bone-and-joints\/neck-and-back-problems-and-conditions\/degenerative-cervical-myelopathy\/\">Degenerative cervical myelopathy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Degenerative cervical myelopathy&#8221; &#8212; NHS inform\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/illnesses-and-conditions\/muscle-bone-and-joints\/neck-and-back-problems-and-conditions\/degenerative-cervical-myelopathy\/embed\/#?secret=9r6FgyrNRm#?secret=wmVp2S96tn\" data-secret=\"wmVp2S96tn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapsed and both my hands stopped working. Operation and lots of rehab to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1850,15,29],"class_list":["post-37379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-hospital","tag-nottingham","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37394,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions\/37394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}