@spcb Thanks for getting back on these issues. Keep up your self-help, you husband would have wanted that if he had noticed your pain. Good luck.
I wish I hadn't been so intimidated by them and their "one-size-fits-all" attitudes and over used one-liners. I have been just in too much pain to do anything but outright weep or cringe in their appointments until now.
I intend to get on with life as best I can. At least I have a good physiotherapist I had prior to the surgery- she is back from long service leave. And I have a new GP who is intellectually interested in my complex neck-shoulder-trigeminal neuropathy pain* issues. This is good.
Keep in touch. I will too, after my appointment in one month.
* I did not have severe trigeminal neuropathy before the surgery.