Just found out that they've scheduled her for surgery tomorrow morning, so hopefully that will do the trick. If there's still pain (or complications) after, I'm not sure what the next step will be. I'm hoping the surgery will take care of the problem.

Reading up a little about herniated discs, it seems like there's nothing you can really do except relax and try to stop the long-term cause of the problem (some sort of motion/movement that is irritating the disc). =(