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Just wanted to give this post a bump and a thank you! My latest tests came back with a 40 point drop in D (whoopee), a PTH of 77 and calcium at 9.3. This puts me smack in the D deficiency bubble. I'm on 50K IU/day currently, think I'll be doubling that, ASAP.

I'm very sorry, if I lived in the bay Area I'd definitely come check on you every day. :(

If you're only a decade behind, not much has changed. Mobo, RAM, chip, heatsink, power supply, GPU, SSD (HD), soundcard if you want it. Case configurations have changed slightly, but not much. You'd be shocked at how similar it is. ASUS is still top for most parts, Crucial for RAM, WD for...

You know what? I think it may have been phpBB that was used. Especially because my DH loves open-source stuff, ha! Viruses are a PITA. I've been fortunate to only have had one or two "nuke the OS from orbit and start again" types. I learned to partition my OS, and it's not an issue anymore...

Oh hey, that's me! Well, my dad. Jeez, I underestimated how long it had been when I wrote that. It was 1995, so it's 20 years now, not 16. I've started losing track of things like that lately, wtf mid-thirties, thanks. He's doing better since this was written, as people can see in my other...

I think sometimes people are intimidated by technology or programming, but it's all logic-based. Once you understand that it becomes a working-knowledge framework that makes it far easier, and even applicable to new things.

Yeah I think I sort of burnt out too a few years after college. It's pretty cool that you're still into it and still learning though, I'm not even doing that much. :) DKP stands for "dragon kill points", it's an old term that applies to many currency systems in use for online gaming. When you...

I can't remember, and I asked DH and neither can he! It was almost ten years ago now, oh my goodness. He threw it on the database and I messed around with it. I was helping to run a DKP site for an MMO game at the time. I sort of wish I'd kept up on everything in that sense, I used to code...

Thanks all! :thumbsup:

That's how it always happens these days, it seems. A development company has a good idea, maintains it poorly or makes weird changes, and then a group of original devs will leave and start their own thing. I'm not complaining, it's how a lot of badass stuff gets out there! I like this a lot...

Just wanted to say, I've been in The Internetz for many moons, and this is one of the more intuitive BBSs I've ever seen. A lot of them try to be feature-rich but just end up cluttered. Or, they are too simplistic. In any case, props to the admin, I love this board.

Think about how you will sleep when you get home! Most suggest a recliner, which is a good idea. I didn't have access to that so it was all about finding pillow configurations in the hotel bed which kept me comfortable. Since I was laparoscopic, on my side with a pillow under my gut worked...

Thanks very much for the kind words, all! It kind of bugs me when people don't use paragraphs, too.

@DianaCox I believe it. I'm pretty surprised my dad has survived, TBH. He's had a couple of close calls, but he's a pretty tough guy. I think if it had been me I'd have died long before two decades.

I've been floating around for a couple of years, but hi! I'm Nikki, I live in Portland, OR and I had DS/VSG/appendectomy/cholecystectomy surgery with Dr. John Rabkin in SFO, April 10, 2013. I'm down 156 pounds and I feel great! I have about 15 pounds or so till goal. I mostly lurk because...

Yeah I totally understand that mindset. I'm similar. I don't have a ton of lab data on myself yet, but I always compare the labs that I have to try and spot anything beforehand. You have to do what you have to do, if your labs trend a particular way and you have to sling back Yet Another Pill...

Oh and hi Elizabeth! :D

He has a short CC, 50cm. He was one of the last to have that length with the Rabkins' team, I believe, as it was proving too short for a lot of people. Even more of a reason for him to supplement!

I could try and get him to poke around here, I may have to cattle-prod him to do it, but I'll give it a shot. :D

You're very welcome, and I'm glad his story can be of some help! I hope it doesn't sound like I'm trashing him, as that's not my intention at all, I realize it could come off that way. I love him very much, and he knows he's been a goober about all of this. Honestly, if he'd had a ton of...