[Don]

Sue, thanks for the cheerleading! I think we are all cheerleaders for each other, even if we don't say it enough.

Good luck on your husband's treatment and on both of your recoveries. My father in law just had a tumor removed from his neck, which had been casuing numbing in his left arm for years. Unfortunately, they first did carpal tunnel surgery to no affect and then told him to wait, it was years before they discovered the tumor. By then it was major surgery and he will never get most of the strength or feeling back. So you are right, we shouldn't wait too long. But, we have the benefit of much better fusion success vs 5 or 10 years ago too. Waiting now is less an issue perhaps than a few years ago.

Take your time healing. That is what everyone says is the best course.

Don