Bruce,
I had the same problem, lost the medical because of a heart problem so I went to the little ones. I did the Stearman thingy doing the skywriting and also the odd Waco and I would not want to have a stall horn going off in a Pitts at any time. To snappy to have that happen.
All I did was just putt around in a Cub for leasure and did skywriting almost every day. Got to take a flight in the cockpit of a 747 doing a fully automated landing, talk about wanting to grab the controls [X(].
Now I play with the biggest R/C planes I can afford and even at times, can't afford.
Agreed enough crying and sorry to get off topic
Hopefully all of the info he got from his post will help him. Reading his responses I am sure it will.