Mark was indeed a valued poster. Self employed a couple years ago, his business had a tough time. It required ALL of his attention. We talked on the phone a few times, but when your source of income gets turned around, you have to pay attention to the wolf at the door. Ditto Gary who had several small attempts at starting a new FDA regulatory affairs consulting business, that were hard to get off the ground. He and I also talked a few times, last I heard he was in welding school, picking up a new trade. Gary also commented about answering the regular questions a hundred times, and was suffering from burn out of doing that.

Those that have come here with high posting numbers are truly passionate, and genuinely altruistic. But life does have a way of (once you are well) pulling at you to get on with it. Some stay in touch with an annual December donation and note, some we are going to pull on to come to our many new events next year to dust them off and have them tell their tales of daring-do, to showcase the fight when this is found late, and to also show that despite the scary statistics, you can make it through this journey.

This is why we don't have chat rooms, that lose the conversation when finished. Even gone, much or Marks and Gary's wisdom and insights live on to anyone that is interested in using the search function for things they want to know.