Hi Summertime, Glad you wrote again. I don't know how to write the private message or how to find your e-mail. I know one good way to get a lot of questions answered is by looking up a website:www.rsdrx.com It is written by a Dr. in Florida. There is a part on the website called puzzles. It's just a lot of questions about rsd with the written answers. It's really important to learn as much as possible early, so we don't make ourselves worse. I had no idea it could spread, although my physical therapist told me after a year or longer of therapy to get frozen shoulder back to about 95 percent in use that it could move to the other shoulder. That made no sense at all, since my surgery was left breast and lympth nodes in arm pit. My breast surgeon said nothing about why my shoulder froze up. Just sent me to a rehab specialist, who sent me to physical therapy. The rehab Dr. told me it was the worst case of frozen shoulder she had seen and she felt the surgeon was responsible for not sending me home with booklet of exercises to keep that from happening. You said you were having insurance problems? Were you injured at work and needed surgery? I know the only way I was able to get insurance was because we own our business and have a group plan. Insurance can't deny you with a group plan. We talked to our attorney about our insurance when we were in between moving to different state. Sorry about your family members having health problems. Our health is so important, not just ourselves of course. My husband just got a clean bill of health. He is so good about his yearly check ups. Take care of yourself.Loretta