John, I appreciate your input. You've got me curious now. I'll try to find information about this new approach.

I want to echo something that Mudlark said. I was cautioned for several years by my Doctor to hold off having this surgery for as long as possible. His reasoning is this: so many new developments are happening in this field that delaying may well result in a better approach. While I agree in principle, in my case I clearly delayed longer than I should have. And I'm paying the price for that now.

You'll get a laugh out of two questions I asked the Doctors when I was screening them: " Do you drink before noon?" "Have you ever done this before?" All the Doctor's laughed when I asked them those questions, but they quickly got serious when they saw that I WASN'T laughing. I was dead serious. CHEERS., Bob