Your information is amazingly helpful and very thorough. And you can write me a rambling dissertation any time, although I didn't regard this as such. Just coherent, good information. You are truly one of my favorite people on these boards, and I'm glad you were willing to answer this. I'm going to pass on this information to the hospice folks when I talk to them next. And I may eventually get a little poll/survey together and post it on the medical board to catch other medical users and see what they say. Right now, I don't have much oomph to do anything more than read routine board responses. When my intellect returns and I can organize my thoughts again, I'll work on my poll, which you can congratulate yourself on having inspired.

Much love and light to you, Image Reaper, and to everyone else who contends with pain and disabling diseases like cancer and arthritis and depression. (I'm finding depression/grief very disabling at the moment myself. If I had something in a nice, uplifting sativa, I'd smoke it.)