Thanks, Beestie. . . and Clodfobble, you're right.
The hubby and I talked a lot about it this weekend... he is sure that the doc is going to tell him to find someone local to take care of him. But I am absolutely adamant. There's no way we're putting ourselves through all that stress again of finding a competant doctor-- I don't doubt that there ARE some around here, but I'm not going to put him through the stress of wondering whether we've found the right one. I'll put him through the stress of finding the money to get him back to NY instead. Money-stress is something we're used to, at least.
We're moving this coming weekend. . . painting tomorrow, packing up the rest of our stuff during the week, and off we go on Saturday. By the end of the month, we should be settled enough to ease his stress a good bit. And we'll be online at home shortly after that. THAT ought to help is stress levels ease up.
I'm a bit less spastic now that we'd actually discussed stuff and I'd let him know that we're not starting at square one. He's a little bent about the whole <b>insisting</b>-on-going-back thing, as he usually will bow to the doctor's recommendations no matter what they say. But I'll be damned if we're gonna play that game again.