Don,
First of all, get other opinions.

All through the 1990s I had spinal surgerys. Three of the four were cervical. Two of those involved disc replacement on 4 vertabrae--one with plating.

Before that, the numbness in my hands, back into the early 1980s, had been diagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome. ------- In 1997 Mayo Clinic figured out I'd had Multiple Sclerosis--possibly all throughout the 20 years I'd had symptoms which the spinal surgery was meant to correct. (It din't.)

Good sir, good luck. At best, it's a crapshoot!

Art