{"id":10384,"date":"2012-05-01T20:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-1-rugby-wallaby-great-lynagh-leaves-hospital-after-stroke\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:30:26","slug":"update-1-rugby-wallaby-great-lynagh-leaves-hospital-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-rugby-wallaby-great-lynagh-leaves-hospital-after-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Rugby-Wallaby great Lynagh leaves hospital after stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Former Wallaby tweets thanks to hospital staff<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Stroke considered rare for someone of Lynagh&#8217;s age<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(updates after Lynagh leaves hospital)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Australia World Cup winner Michael<br \/>\nLynagh, who suffered a significant stroke two weeks ago, has<br \/>\nbeen discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old former flyhalf was admitted to hospital<br \/>\nafter suffering problems with his vision, coordination and<br \/>\nbalance but has recovered enough to be released.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost exactly 2 weeks after my stroke, I have been<br \/>\nreleased from hospital. A long way to go, but a big step in the<br \/>\nright direction,&#8221; Lynagh tweeted from his account @LynaghMichael<br \/>\non Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank all the Doctors, Nurses and Staff at<br \/>\nthe Royal Brisbane Hospital. They were fantastic and are real<br \/>\nheroes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lynagh&#8217;s condition had been labelled as critical when he<br \/>\nentered the Royal Brisbane and Women&#8217;s Hospital after the<br \/>\nstroke, which doctors had said was rare for someone of his age.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lynagh, who won the World Cup in 1991 and played in 72 tests<br \/>\nfor the Wallabies, retired from international rugby in 1995 and<br \/>\nhad been living in London since.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing by John<br \/>\nO&#8217;Brien)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Former Wallaby tweets thanks to hospital staff * Stroke considered rare for someone of Lynagh&#8217;s age (updates after Lynagh leaves hospital) May 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Australia World Cup winner Michael Lynagh, who suffered a significant stroke two weeks ago, has been discharged from hospital. The 48-year-old former flyhalf was admitted to hospital after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}