Alan, I'm so sorry to hear this. You deserve compensation at mininum.
Have your doctors considered an intrathecal pain pump where they can give pain killers that probably would help you? I don't know the efficacy of a spinal stimulator but maybe others know.
Also, and this is sick but avoid this pump system:
http://www.pharmacypracticenews.com/...ticle_id=15107
Please give an update. There are doctors whom I would trust in a horrible situation like this. Actually one: Dr. Carl Lauryssen in LA.
My best, ans