you are okay ....hope you are doing well, actually. Having to have surgery is no fun. It is in ways actually worse than many types of surgeries themselves, because it weighs on your mind.

It's interesting: would one prefer an older, experienced surgeon? Or a younger one who is more up to date on medical advances. At this point, almost all the doctors I routinely see seem very, very young to me.

It was a year ago this month I had the serious ead injury. One of the two neurologists said that I had to have surgery. The other, who was younger, said that I might be okay without surgery. I opted to avoid it, in part because I'd have had to cut my hair ....or have a reverse mullet.

I hope that you are taking it easy, and are (or have) recovering well.