[Terry]

It's a tough decision to make but it sounds like you are not having any kind of quality of life at this point.

I paid for mine out of pocket and did get reimbursed by Blue Cross. I am nervous due to someone else's post here that Blue Cross has one year to get their payment back from you. I had never heard of that. It is unusual that I got reimbursed anyway.

I could not live much longer the way I was living. I could no longer work and my quality of life was such that I prayed to die. I figured I lived a good life and God could take me any time. When it gets that bad your options get more and more limited. They probably inject you with Dilaudid in the ER. It has the tendency to put you in LaLa Land.

I can definitely empathise with you. Ultimately you are going to have to decide. Have you thought of going over to Germany? That is where I went for my surgery. It is definitely cheaper there.

Good Luck and hang in there.

Terry Newton