You can blow up at me any ol' time you want hamstergirl! *grin* I know its frustration with your situation talking and won't take it personally.

But I have to correct you on one account. Again, its the written word I have trouble with. For 2 years I was in pain and unable to function...was being the key word. Now, I still have pain but it is manageable and for the most part, I live my life as I always have. It is and was only a small taste of what you must go through. I just wanted you to know that I do understand a little...that I'd been there for a very little while. I do know how all-consuming pain can be.

The waiting lists are horrendous for everything, I agree. Its a pet peeve of mine. My brother is on a waiting list for brain surgery. We just found out he has Arnold-Chiari malformation - a rare condition in which the back of the brain slowly slips into the spinal canal causing excrutiating headaches, blurred vision, muscle weakness, difficulty swallowing, brain impairment.....they told him it could be done in a year. He is considering going to the states to have it done. I guess there is a surgeon there who performs these surgeries about 5 times a year.

I am very p!ssed off with our waiting lists. They are ridiculous. I can relate to your anger about that completely.

My brother is in Ottawa too hamstergirl. (He lives in Russell, actually but works in Ottawa). I'll be thinking about you both.

<font color=green>Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.</font color=green> --Alan Keightley