Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit June 30, 1998, 97-3688 (Kathryn K. GROVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee)

POSNER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision by the district court affirming the denial of social security disability benefits to Kathryn Groves. Groves is a middle-aged woman who has chronic degenerative disc disease in several of her spinal discs and has had two operations on her spine.