Jim,
Dilmar has a very valid point.
I'd just like to add this.
How can struggling with a progressive illness for which there is medication to help ease some of the symptoms and when that begins to become unreliable, surgery available for you would you want to live with such an appalling QOL as you are now?
You seem like a nice enough fella, always polite and respectful of others replies and I hope you aren't offended by my question.