started process to see another surgeon

If you do end up in Cleveland, remember that surgeons there specialize in complications and revisions from elsewhere. They see things in numbers that other docs don't.
Better to do the drive in good weather if it comes to that.

Lora, you DO matter..... VERY much!   It's just a matter of finding the right surgeon who will listen and do the right thing.  I hope and pray that this surgeon you are going to see will be THE ONE. 

Praying for you