Thanks again. Lots of good advice, and I really appreciate it.

It's ironic that it takes so much effort to get this kind of thing going. It'd be so much easier to be well enough to get my job back. :P

I guess I just have lots of studying to do on this and lots of calls to make to see where I am in this. To those who said I should call and make an app for SSI ASAP, do you think I should do this like really ASAP? That is to say, should I do this without seeing my neurosurgeon and asking for his opinion again? I don't see him until the first week of October so, I was planning on filing after seeing the doctor and listening to what he said.