I think I speak for everyone in wishing you well.
Thanks for the link to view MRI discs. I have been bringing the discs with me to each doctor but not been able to look at them myself. Funny, something happened between my two MRIs taken three months apart, something very subtle, that luckily a surgeon picked up on. The surgery I had decided on would not have helped me, but I know exactly what you mean by this:
Must sound odd when people hear I'm happy to go to the hospital. Anything's better than this. Finally the pain is going away.