Hello Maria
Thanks for taking the time to reply, it's appreciated. There was lots of information in your post, so I want to make sure to address it all.
In terms of the surgeon and the proposed surgery - I completely agree with you here. My plan is to have the myelogram done (Thursday 12th), and get my follow up results on Monday the 16th. That way we know what we are dealing with. Once I have those results, I'm going to go back to TBI and talk to Dr Ziegler and his staff and see if they agree with the results. I'm also looking into one other surgeon that a fellow coworker recommended. I figure three opinions is a good start. If two agree great, but most likely they will all have different opinions, which may not be so bad.
As for reading through the past information, I started to this past weekend, but I will continue my research, I like you agree you can never do too much.
You mentioned the name Mark M, I recognize that name from a forum I used to visit, but it's no longer around, but I will have to look him up. Again, it goes back to that research and you can never do too much.
Oops I forgot one thing, the dreaded myelogram, yeah I'm not looking forward to it. Like you the last time I had one, I had a leak and had to have a blood patch done to get rid of the spinal headache. I'm hoping I don't have to do that again, but I know my luck so I'm already planning for it
I hope I covered it all, but feel free to let me know if I missed anything, I will be happy to respond.