Hello, T, and welcome!
If you're a friend of Donfoo's then you're a friend of mine! ;-)
Wow-getting treated @ JH's! Holy cow! That's great you've got a good partner with you as I suspect she'll help out in a million and one ways that don't even appear necessary now.
As for the nerve pain, I've had on/off, sometimes severe pain in my bottom lip/side of face where the surgeon did my "frankenface" (lip resection) surgery. I seem to have electric shock-type pains where he joined areas together. I take gabapentin, and yes, it helps-a bit. I didn't think it was doing any good a while back and stopped taking it-YIKES!What a mistake! I know what you're going through and there might be something better for nerve pain but this but it does seem to help ease the intensity/duration of the shocks.
Hang in there, buddy-you're gonna come through all this with flying colors!
Gordon