Well, it's been 2 or 3 weeks since I last heard from the surgeon's office about scheduling my SCS surgery. You will recall I was unable to have a trial as a procedure as they were unable to put the leads through the arthritis in my back, so I have to have a laminectomy to do my trial. I also have lots and lots of allergies, and other health problems so my surgeon had to do a lot in order to figure out how to do my surgery. But it's been 10 weeks!!! I called the surgeon's assistant yesterday and left a pleading message to please find out what is going on - 10! Weeks is just too long to be kept hanging. Well, she called me late afternoon today and apologized - my surgeon had a long talk with my pain specialist and the Boston Science Rep and they decided with all my allergies they could do the test and the implant in one surgery. Yeah! What a relief! Only negative was that they forgot to tell me - they thought I was already scheduled so they left a note for the scheduler for Monday. I did call her just last week about this and got no reply. But that's behind me now - I'm finally going to get this chance. I don't even know what to expect and I don't want to get my hopes up - but what if it helps? Oh how I hope it helps! I need to get thoughts of a plan B thought out in case it doesn't help, but for today I am excited. I'm hoping they have 12/26 or 12/28 open - if not I'll take whatever but it would be nice to have it after Christmas. Could this really be happening? It's now been 14 months since I asked my pain specialist to refer me. That's a long time to have hope - oh please Lord let it help! I don't want to have to live the rest of my life like this! Please let it help. I'll let you know my surgery date on Monday folks -