Thanks PillAddict, BDJ, and Alera.
Your suggestion is a good one, Alera. By now I should be coming off the pills. The problem is the doctor had to scrape the growth from nerves that it was growing out of. The thought of that makes me cringe.
And, of course, being a proud doctor, he had to go into details about that, including pictures!
I'm still doing ok. Thank you all.
Carol