Welcome back Gunny, 2016 was a difficult year for many of us it seems. I'm with you under general or light anaesthetic (no memory of procedure) is an operation in my book. I only spent 15 nights in total in hospital last year so that was a plus. The negative is I've not been able to get my pain back under control after the November stint of 8 nights when I couldn't charge my stim. The SCS just doesn't seem to be working anymore. I'm in the process af re programming every few days trying to find one that suits but to date no luck. My SCS is a Nevro and been in for 3 years, in all I had very good results and was able to cut right back on meds to 1 sublingual temgesic a day, sometimes 2. Now I'm back on 10mg oxy but hope to stop after I have another procedure in February.
Hang in there, if you can get the right mix of programming & medicine life can be good again.