{"id":74137,"date":"2014-10-10T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=74137"},"modified":"2014-10-10T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:41:01","slug":"feeling-body-feared-left-paralysed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/feeling-body-feared-left-paralysed\/","title":{"rendered":"I had no feeling in my body and feared I would be left paralysed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PIC &#8211; William Dougan who suffered a severe spinal injury when playing rugby for Armagh two weeks ago.<br \/>\nAN ARMAGH man admits he had a &#8216;lucky escape&#8217; after suffering a serious spinal injury during a rugby match at the Palace Grounds on September 20.<br \/>\nWilliam Dougan was playing for Armagh 3rd XV against a side from Portadown RFC, when he suffered the injury after an incident in the ruck.<br \/>\nFortunately for William, the visiting team had a doctor on their backroom staff and he was able to assess the injury and ring an ambulance in a matter of seconds.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the Ulster Gazette, William admitted it was a moment he will never forget.<br \/>\n\u201cI was crouched fairly low on my feet in the ruck and the next minute I was hit by an opponent and my body was thrown backwards.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Portadown doctor saw I was in serious pain straight away and he sprinted on to the pitch&#8230;&#8230;.. for the full story go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulstergazette.co.uk\/articles\/news\/42530\/i-had-no-feeling-in-my-body-and-feared-i-would-be-left-paralysed\/\">http:\/\/www.ulstergazette.co.uk\/articles\/news\/42530\/i-had-no-feeling-in-my-body-and-feared-i-would-be-left-paralysed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone wished William a full and speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIC &#8211; William Dougan who suffered a severe spinal injury when playing rugby for Armagh two weeks ago. AN ARMAGH man admits he had a &#8216;lucky escape&#8217; after suffering a serious spinal injury during a rugby match at the Palace Grounds on September 20. William Dougan was playing for Armagh 3rd XV against a side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armagh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74139,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137\/revisions\/74139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}