Hi and thank you for replying. After 40 years, I am moving out of the Keys to a small town 26 miles inland from Naples, FL. Naples does have a number of hospitals and Ft. Meyers is not far either but I do not know of any spinal hospitals yet. I am in considerable pain and don’t walk well but I am mobile. The longer I walk, the more it hurts. My new home will have a swimming pool which I fully intend to use. There is also a big community pool and probably water aerobics will be offered which I will take. Eventually I have to make the trip to Miami for an MRI that can be used by those with pacemakers. I do not want spinal surgery. I know of several people who had laminectomies in the past 20 years and they are not doing well now. They are facing more and more spinal surgery. I have signed up for a study with Disc Genics regarding stem cell transplants starting in 2024. I am also taking Sirolimus, a rapamycin medicine as a Guinea pig. It is approved by the FDA for organ and stem cell transplants and you can get it through studies being done on it. It has been studied with some successful results on rats with ddd issues as well as cardio issues. It was discovered in the 70s but apparently it takes forever in study programs. I’ve been on it for almost 3 months. It hasn’t killed me yet but I haven’t noticed any changes either.