Gina -You can vent here anytime. Everyone understands. People do care about you and worry about you. What I've heard others do is keep a blog outside of this forum, just for letting people know their progress. I don't remember where the blog is - maybe some hospitals have these? Or someone else might know here. This way whatever you want your family or friends to know, they can check on it online themselves and saves you from having to repeat everything several times. Sometimes it's the caregiver that does the blog. There is also a blog feature here, and people only reply to it if you want them to. THis way if you want to ask or say something you wouldn't want others outside of this forum to know about, it will stay that way.

Sure sounds like you have been doing research - Wow! 5 pages of questions. What I did recently when I had two doctors doing some robot surgery on me, (female stuff) and they were both very busy, I put my questions together and faxed them to the office, late one afternoon, inviting either the doctor or the doctor's nurse to reply. I was very surprised when I got a personal phone call from the doctor the next morning with answers to everything! And he said he wished all his patients did the same. You might get better answers as well since they will have time think about it and give you better answers. If you can group similar questions together, have some that only require yes/no answers, you might end up with fewer pages of questions which could help the doctor make better use of his/her appointment time with you. Let us know how you are doing.