Those people who are new to this bulletin board might not know that there used to be a thriving chat room here. It was so useful to me when I first discovered this place. I went in there and 'met' many of the people that helped guide me through my early days of interferon, many of them gone now taken by melanoma, and many of them just gone away from reading these boards.
Those people who are new to this bulletin board might not know that there used to be a thriving chat room here. It was so useful to me when I first discovered this place. I went in there and 'met' many of the people that helped guide me through my early days of interferon, many of them gone now taken by melanoma, and many of them just gone away from reading these boards.
I don't spend much time in there myself anymore, since it is so quiet, but I will often log in there and just minimize the window while I read the boards or check my facebook or news readers. And new people still come in there, sometimes even before they find these boards, and they are usually pretty happy to find someone to talk to who understands the diagnosis.
Anyway, Shelby has posted some suggested chat times in the chat room, so now when newcomers enter the chat room, they'll see some times listed when they might expect others. I hope this will help people who actually want to use the room find others of a like mind.
I see she's listed the times in Eastern Standard Time, each night at 8pm, and I'd like to encourage some of the long term members to try popping in there over the next few weeks to see if we can't encourage a chat room revival. I am often cooking dinner during the 5 O'Clock hour (I am pacific time) any of you night owls back east who like to get on late can look for me around 10 or 11 Eastern as well.
Dian
