--as well as a couple of surgeons at Cornell and one at NYU that had been recommended to me by a choir-mate of my wife's (who has had two good cervical operations done by the guy).

Of course, they all want records and images sent--but that's easier nowadays with electronic media; I just have to get a copy of the images for the NYU doctor.

Regarding the Lyme disease possibility--I did go through the ELISA, Western Blot, and eventually Igenex testing back in 2003 and nothing suspicious for Lyme or other tick borne diseases ever showed. Of course, we do suspect in a molecular mimicry autoimmune process that there was an infectious prodrome, but it could have been anything from a bacterium to a common virus--the key, presumably, is that it would have to have a chemical composition and shape similar to that of my small fiber nerves to result in my immune system to continue to attack.