Bob- I have got to tell you I liked your handle from the moment I first laid eyes on it. Without looking, I just Knew you had to be from near JeffCity Mo. You see, I have family galore around the KC environs and spent several childhood years in that area myself. Yep.

Thankfully you have come onboard and have begun what was SO needed, the perspective from the Pain Pump viewpoint. So true, there is no remedy, No Remedy, which will bring a silver bullet end to the pain any of us has endured; however, pain CAN be better managed through therapies such as you now introduce to all. I, on the other hand, am one of those SCS folks bent for leather on the path to have permanent implant of what is now a Boston Scientific neuro stim unit. With such a device I have a goal of finding pain remediation through the BORG collective sans meds.

My docs are on team with me as having a goal to leave morphine and the others of my laundry list behind. We'll see, we'll see. My physiatrist has assured me I will hate him as we strive to ween me off the morphine, but I am game, because I have every hope of being able to be professionally practicing once again in some means. Be nice to bring in a "paycheck" once again.

You hang in there regarding the amputation issues along with the pain management. Hard yes. I have had family members and close friends alike who had to go with loss of limbs for a variety of reasons from diabetes, to gun shots, to staph. Each handled theirs in different and positive ways. For you, it sounds as though you have a strong support center in your family and now here. We will gather around you Bob. Cheer when you wanna cheer, cry when you gotta cry, and pray regardless. In my life, I have found that prayer perspective has been ultra important maintaining sanity through PAIN. So, now there is an extra measure headed in your direction.

Anyway, for your strength in sharing with all of us on your new thread I welcome you and hope through this you reap the rewards of support sure to come because you sought first to reach out to others in their need.

Peace,
Mark56