Thanks for the replies!

I have seen Dr Donahue mentioned on this forum a lot. I am leery of traveling, since my symptoms have gotten so bad I wind up on the floor after a car ride, but I'll do whatever it takes to end this madness and get some form of normal, adult life back Hahaha.
Not the mention the all to familiar struggle on here of blowing all my dough on insurance to even be seen in the first place.

I'll def ask Dr. Ali about doing the full rib resection, and have a feeling it's her approach simply because it is an older way of doing it.

Either way, I'm becoming more and more of the mindset of Full removal is the way to go. No stump, less risk of re-injury, and severing more of my hateful scalenes.

Toslady- Yikes! I'm sorry to here that. This is definitely something I'm terrified of happening. When did you have you surgery done at JH, and do you remember who did it?