Hey Racergal... I look forward to hearing of your successful surgery!
My preference for postings would be:
>> WC issues and pre surgery battles discussed in iSpine main forum.
>> Surgery experience recorded in surgery blog section.
>> Surgical outcomes thread will stand as kind of a parameterized recording of outcomes that will (hopefully) allow us to compare apples to apples if we can get everyone to post in the same way.
One of the nice things is that we can do is to link threads together. Call me if you want some help. The tool icon that looks like a globe with 2 chain links in front of is it the insert link tool. Highlight the URL (universal resource locator, or address) from the address bar on your browser. Click control-C to copy it to your cut and paste buffer. Then create a post. Highlight text that you'll want to appear as your link name and click the link tool. Click control-V to past the URL into the dialog box.
If you are a propellerhead like me, you might want to use your own code.
{url=www.globalpatientnetwork.com}Mark's GPN Website{/url}
I used curly braces here instead of square brackets, so the code does not get interpreted. Here is the same thing, correctly coded with square braces.
Mark's GPN Website
Using links, you can have all the important threads you start link to one another.
All the best!
Mark