21.   Some time ago he did it right after a hernia operation.

22.   Stapleton also played with Ajax in Amsterdam, but had his season ended by a hernia operation, and with Le Havre in France.

23.   The injury news got worse at Old Trafford, with the loss of midfielder Nicky Butt for six weeks after he underwent a hernia operation.

24.   The principal, Anita Gomez-Palacio, had lost one assistant principal through budget cuts and another because of a hernia operation.

25.   The Yankees already have five effective starters and a capable sixth starter in Ramiro Mendoza, who is in the rotation while Dwight Gooden recovers from a hernia operation.

26.   The winner is the first one to make the judges yawn without resorting to political oratory, showing vacation pictures or talking about a hernia operation.

27.   There were differing opinions about how a sports hernia operation would affect a pro back.

28.   When he had a hernia operation, I was miserable.

29.   A statement from a spokesman in New York said Conlon underwent an emergency hernia operation and would resume conducting at the end of February.

30.   According to reports he fears he may need a hernia operation which would effectively rule him out of the World Cup.