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Mwen te kouche nan scanner a louvri-sided, koute clanking la nan machin lan kote m ', ak mande sa ki li te wè. analiz yo nan pi ba kò mwen an te sanble yo pran yon tan long. evantyèlman, apre apeprè de zè de tan, Mwen te rankontre moute ak Radiology Iain Lyburn fè yon gade nan analiz mwen. Te gen yon bagay mal. Nou te gade nan yon ti tranch sajital nan kò mwen an, dwat a mitan an nan kolòn vètebral mwen. Mwen te kapab wè gra disk yo entèrvèrtebral, yo chak ak yon juicy, pal gri sant - dwa desann nan dènye a men se yon sèl. sa a disk, L4 / 5, kouche ant vètebral la lonbèr katriyèm ak senkyèm, te nwa. Li te tou trou moute nan kò a nan L4, katriyèm vèrtèbr nan lonbèr, pi wo a li. Y 'al herniated - mwen te kapab wè klè yon ti wonn ki te nwa pouse soti pi lwen pase vètebral la nan do a, twò fèmen nan rasin yo lonbèr nè.
eng
I lay in the open-sided scanner, listening to the clanking of the machine around me, and wondering what it was seeing. The scans of my lower body seemed to take a long time. Eventually, after about two hours, I met up with radiologist Iain Lyburn to look at my scans. There was something wrong. We were looking at a sagittal slice through my body, right through the middle of my spine. I could see the plump intervertebral discs, each with a juicy, pale grey centre – right down to the last but one. This disc, L4/5, lying between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, was black. It had also punched up into the body of L4, the fourth lumbar vertebra, above it. And it was herniated – I could clearly see a bubble of black pushing out beyond the vertebrae at the back, uncomfortably close to the lumbar nerve roots.