im glad to hear you're doing alright. I've wondered whether one of those purple mattresses would be worth their cost. A couple people I worked with got one and they never shut up about how amazing it is.

For my surgery, I had the surgery when I had a job and shortly thereafter I did not have a job anymore, in part because I missed 4 days instead of the 3 days they allotted for my recovery. I had one meeting with the dr after the surgery about a week and a half afterward but it was too early for him to tell whether it would fix me, and to be honest he was WAY more concerned that I had no sense of taste and smell because that wasn't supposed to happen. I'm sure he was shidding himself thinking I was going to sue, but my senses came back after about another week or so. Looking back though I'm sure he would've recommended another procedure but alas it wasn't meant to be.