Thanks, Ed (@njed). I appreciate your words more than you can imagine. If I'm asking provocative questions, it's because I'm late to the dance. My PN diagnosis is still less than a year old. I'm learning as I go along. My questions, possibly naïve, grow out of my learning. I'm sure I'll continue to post my babe-in-the-woods questions, but I'm also interested in getting into the politics of PN. Only this morning, I read Gideon Lewis-Kraus's New Yorker account, "Bitter Pill," about the FDA. The article got me all worked up––in a positive way. If I say I'm having fun, does that sound too weird? How can a guy with PN be having fun? But in my own weird way, I am. Some parts of my PN are a pain (pun intended?) in the a**; however, other parts keep me energized, living in a high-octane way––and what's not fun about that? LOL Uh oh, I see it's a quarter-to-nine—time for a couple of hours of non-PN work. ::zzz:: Again, thank you, Ed, for the kind things you've said. Here's wishing you an excellent day! ––Ray (@ray666)