Thanks again. They say the surgeon will be doing minimally invasive surgery and I am curious can they see into my spine with that? I don't understand the procedure at all really except that they'll make a small incision cut out part of the lamina. And I'm supposing they have some Imaging while they're working on me? To be able to see what's going on in there. Very interesting and so much to learn. The more knowledge I have the less afraid I'll be I guess, I hope. Also my symptoms seem to be changing I don't have as much throbbing now in my calf muscles but my back itself is hurting more. Plus another surgeon I saw took an x-ray of my pelvis and said that my right hip has severe osteoarthritis which will eventually cause my hip to fuse on its own. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing and how much pain that will create but it already is creating pain in my right hip.