I, literally, just stumbled onto this website while looking for information about internet hoaxes and I have to say I’m loving it (I like internet forums, anyway - they’re fun!).  My name is Tony Trout and I’m 36 - will be thirty seven in May.  Was born three months premature and also born with Cerebral Palsy/Hydrocephalus (the latter is more commonly known as “water on the brain”) and the doctors told my parents that I would never live and even if there was the slight chance that I did, I wouldn’t know anyone or be able to do anything.  Well, thirty-six years later, God has proven them wrong!  I can play several different musical instruments and I am a singer as well.  I’m a HUGE fan of Elvis Presley - there will never be another singer/entertainer like him in our lifetime! 

I’m glad to be here and I thank you for letting me join!!

Take Care/God Bless,
Tony Trout

P.S.  Is there any way for me to use the attached picture as an avatar?

Tony Trout - 12 February 2013 07:07 AM

P.S.  Is there any way for me to use the attached picture as an avatar?

EDIT: Follow Tah’s instructions in the following post for your avatar.

Welcome to you. I hope you have a fun time on the forums.

Welcome, Tony. And the link Peter provided is actually not the current way to upload avatars. At the top of any forum page click the “Your Control Panel” link, then the “Edit Avatar” link. It should be self-explanatory from there.

Hey there, welcome! Help your self to the cookies.

Hi Tony!  And may I also say that like a lot of folks who aren’t supposed to survive, or be credible, or be anything more than a vegetable, you are not alone in that diagnosis!  Welcome to foolishness here!

Let me add my voice to all the welcoming going on here

Welcome to the group.  And it’s associated insanity. 

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

Hi Tony, glad to have you here!

HI! Elvis Rules!