Milo, you’re dodging a bullet NOT getting your surgery down in southern Oregon. I received an inguinal mesh on the right side in Grants Pass about 4 years ago. It always ached after driving all day but other than that, wasn’t that bad. Then while doing something last spring something that felt like an explosion there at the inguinal surgery site then a constant feeling of the spermatic cord to the right testical in a vice feeling and tons of nerve pain all around, day and night. Go with the best you can find. Have you met with any surgeons in Portland yet? Good luck to you.