The absentee moderator here takes offense to topical links to "competing" sites (even though they can't manage to keep the spam links off the board!) so I won't post any details or links.....but I wanted you all to know that I'm hard at work on a complete interactive site, including a forum that is based on MUCH better software than this one, for sufferers of chronic pain conditions like EP/PR & CPPS.

The site isn't up yet, but there should be a beta version online by next week. You can get in touch with me by emailing or just watch for my next post which should include more details about the site I'm building.

I am hoping that it will make a real difference in the lives of chronic pain sufferers, and on a personal level, I hope it can give me productive, satisfying work that is compatible with my ever-worsening condition & pain levels. I already put so much time and effort into other people's sites, that as a long time web publisher and community administrator myself it only makes sense to create my own site for these topics.

So, I hope that those of you who may be unsatisfied with things here and elsewhere, will consider making yourselves at home on my new forum when it goes online in a few days -- in fact, I may start work as soon as I finish this post so an early beta site could be online as early as tonight or tomorrow.

I hope this message finds all of you having a better-than-normal day and that even if I can't reach into your lives and heal all the things that are wrong.....I can help each of you be more hopeful about the future by creating a better, more closely knit support community that will be able to make a real difference.

I can also be reached at my existing general-purpose forum: http://blackhole.xerces.com/ which has its own "Health, Pain & Healing" section which includes lots of interesting information to tide you over until the dedicated site is up :-)