Sent info to Dr. J

[cjsmith]

There's an anesthesiologist running a pain clinic in New York City. A physician/square-dancer friend of mine recommended him based mainly on the impressiveness of his resume. He's kind of my only remaining hope.

I just sent off a brain-dump to him. Many thanks to Rob for assembling it for me. X-rays, MRIs, the Stanford Pain Clinic writeup, the timeline of all the treatments I've tried...

I'm nervous. Of course.

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[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

Having just done a search on idiopathic peripheral neuropathy
I thought I'd ask if you know about these people:
http://millercenter.uchicago.edu/learnaboutpn/aboutus/index.shtml
"Jack Miller Center for peripheral neuropathy"

Not that I know anything about the place beyond looking at their website.
And not that I personally feel deeply optimistic about this direction for
finding answers. (Note: don't read that as a lack of optimism..... it is not.
My optimism runs in other directions is all....)

BTW, have you noticed that many organizations (like the one above) have
names that can be read as "in favor" of "given disease". I mean, let's
hope that the place is not FOR (in favor of) peripheral neuropathy.
Maybe rename to "Jack Miller Center for elimination of peripheral neuropathy"
or "Jack Miller Center for relief from peripheral neuropathy".
Whatever, but the FOR bugs me from time to time.

Oh, and I was searching to see if I had the right general ideas about what
it is -- which I did. I don't remember hearing this DX for your feet before.

Moria