Thinking of you, too -- all of you.

Some answers: yes, Gougerot Syndrome is an autoimmune disease. Yes, it is the same as Sjogren's Syndrome (as far as I can tell).

A neurosurgeon looked over my tests. He thinks that the pain in my legs may be due to a vertebra pushing on the spinal column. He gave me some exercises to do, which definitely are helping. I have been off Lyrica for 2-3 weeks now, with some slight pain, but nothing like before. I hear nerve tissue repairs itself slowly; maybe that is what is happening.

I walk a dog for 40 minutes or so; feel dead tired at the end, have to lie down and take aspirin. We'll see if it gets better with time.

I wish all of you the very, very, VERY best. Now, I gotta go do my taxes ... now, that's real pain for you.

Tom