Finally had my RNY on 07.16.2008

 Congrats and here's hoping you have a hassle-free recovery.

For avatars, if you have a graphics/photo editing program, try cropping the pic to a square than saving it as a gif or jpeg at 100 x 100 pixels. That should load okay and look good.

As far as pics uploading, SOMETIMES I've gotten the message that my pics have not uploaded only to find out later that they have. You may want to clear your browser's cache and see if the OH page loads with the new pics. 

Hope this helps--it's the extent of my "knowledge"!

Thanks for all the support. I just got back from my one week appointment with the surgeon. Turns out he saved my life. I mean of course having the surgery alone saved my life. He ordered a liver biopsy on a hunch and got the results back yesterday. I was on the verge of serious liver problems as my liver was in a state of Non-Alcoholis Steatohepatitis. I had of course never heard of this but apparently is very common in people that have had fatty liver, ie the obese.

Here is a link to a website I found with some good info:

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/nash/

Thanks again,

Ryan L.