I tried to post this as a reply to cruciate but was refused on the grounds it has too many images or attachments in it.
You guess right. A very bored, laid-back, can't be bothered to remember who he is talking to about what specialist nurse physio. He was passing on the decision of the Multi-Disciplinary Team who have decided surgery is the way forward after careful consideration of my MRI Scan results. Discussion with "my surgeon" is next.
My old GP had me on Zapain - 1000/50 as I recall and when I changed GP that was instantly changed to Gabapentin, then some more of that and then a bit more. Zapain became morphine, referrals started to whizz around and stagnation became progress. I've been under Carol a couple of months and I'm knocking on the surgeons door, after months of nothingness under a male GP, my age, knows what's best, gets very huffy if he feels his professionalism is being questioned, which I was doing more and more. Oops! I'm winghing (prizes for the correct spelling of that word).
It will be surgery so I'm much pleased with your assurance it will be a GA!
I've got my head round the whole deal now, so thanks , guys, for your support during my wobble. I'm having surgery, just like the hospitals full of folk having the same, day in day out. Arghhhhhh!