I did want to note that I have had epidurals in the past, many of them. And when I had my son in 2009, I had a full spinal block for my c-section (I was not allowed to deliver vaginally because of the herniation I had at the time, the one that later fragmented) and it was placed pretty high on my back, above the surgical scar from the L4-L5 microdiskectomy that I had had back in '07. I was actually numb from my neck down.