{"id":47227,"date":"2017-11-15T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47227"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:23:45","slug":"stewarts-medical-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/11\/stewarts-medical-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart&#8217;s Medical Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year,<strong> Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong> was diagnosed with a new medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The actor is suffering from vertigo, which he has had for eight months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am permanently dizzy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen seven doctors and I am now in the hands of a professor of neurology in London. And they have all said that it will go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart and his doctors do not know what caused the condition. &#8220;We are trying to literally reprogram certain little aspects of my brain, [which] receive signals from my eyes and my ears and my body,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t make sense. And quite why it&#8217;s come about, they don&#8217;t know. But it&#8217;s unpleasant. The only good thing is that it goes away when I&#8217;m horizontal, so I sleep beautifully. And when I drive \u2014 and I love driving, I&#8217;m a passionate driver \u2014 I can get in my car and I&#8217;m no longer dizzy. I can drive anywhere at any speed. I have even been on a racetrack driving, and the doctors are fascinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Sir Patrick Stewart was diagnosed with a new medical condition. The actor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2440,9411],"class_list":["post-47227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-stewart","tag-vertigo"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/StewartStock111517.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47229,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47227\/revisions\/47229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}