Thank you so much for the kind words.
Prayers and best wishes to your wife. Hope she is doing better now and on the road to full recovery.
Most frustrating part of my situation is that the doctor who performed my surgery/procedure diagnosed me with one ailment while his associate in the same practice (and a doctor who has previously treated me) disagreed with both the former diagnosis as well as questioning the course of treatment that the hospital had not taken. I now have another procedure to undergo in a couple of weeks on an out patient basis and am otherwise merely trying to heal myself through online research and some trial-and-error experimentation gleaned from various suggestions.
I hated being cooped-up in the hospital with all the assorted physical limitations, not to mention not having any quality internet access and not having a handful of my favorite tv channels.
BTW, I enjoy reading many of the posts here on FR and found yours quite harmless and anything but annoying.
Again, thanks and convey my best wishes to your wife to feel better soon!!
Thank you so much. My thoughts and prayers for your full recovery. My wife is doing fine.
Just one thought: I am as questioning as anyone about doctors and what they think is helping. But watch those online sources. Most are sponsored by someone trying to profit from a wonder cure or wonder book. Others are disgruntled people who may not know more than the doctors after all. And some say the radio ad natural cures can damage organs (beet powder hard on kidneys for instance). Just be careful.
After all that here I go: An author Mitch Horowitz in The Miracle Club and One Simple Idea (the history of positive thinking cults and other groups) discussed the fact that medical science first disdained and now partially accepts positive visualization,belief in placebo effect and use of the thoughts in the hypnagogic state (which means just before falling asleep) as affecting recovery. Gave some example actions to try). Ralph Waldo Emerson was into some of this. Interesting and harmless (compared with quack cures) and might help. Maybe get on interlibrary loan from a library. Note: I do not agree with his politics.
Get better.
-Best