April,
What you post on the message boards won't go into your profile. you actually need to go to your profile page and click on "update" at the bottom of it to add your journal entries. If you click on your own name on the post you made to the message board, it will take you to your surgery page. you can make a post to that and if you click on "yes, this is an update, then it will appear both on your surgery page and on the message boards (those are the ones on the board that you see written in the blue lettering). Hope this helps.....and welcome to the family!!
Lori