We Have Chat
 

YAYAYAY!

Thank you, Doc John!

KD

Well, I can't access it yet, but it looks like we'll be able to soon...6 rooms. :)

KD

I can get in... :D

I'm not a chatter, my eyes go wonky and brain goes stupid. Just too fast to follow.:eek: But that's great for those of you, who love it.:D

Congrats!

Let me know what the rooms should be, as I have no idea what you had on BT1..........

How do I find the chat? I don't see a link.

Thanks :)
Anne

I found the link. I swear it was not there 2 minutes ago.

Link no longer needed...

goodmorning all
 

well I must be blind as a bat because I see no link or anything as to how to get into chat room:confused: oh well, time Jo, time:D have not
even hit the reply thingy and I see it. See, I said time, didn't I Jo;)



thank you Dr. Grohol, you are a very caring man. I hope and pray we will be worthy of your generosity. I can't spell. no!! nobodys noticed?:rolleyes: :D Julia

For any who want to know...

The chat access is at the top of the forums page, underneath "welcome [name]" and just to the left of "logout". :)

Thanks!

KD

our own
 

Dr Grohol, you certainly try to please. that is nice, but I'm sure I don't have to tell you that things can go south when too many spoons get in the pot.;)

I'm not sure what you are asking, it could be taken several ways, but I would like to have OUR CHATS, not a carbon copy of other chats??

I would like to have something for Alzheimers Disease/cargivers. I'm not sure there are enough people interested. As large as some forums are, Alzheimers forum was very slow. I never could figure out why.

Is it that people just don't want to talk about it? Like I said, I never did understand why no more people were Interested in this disease and the cargivers that about killed themselves before they realized they had given all they had to give caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's D.

When it was clear my mother-in-law could no longer live alone, we brought her here. Little to no help from siblings. Anyway, long story.

Notice I said CHATS. Thats what my search rendered. I went into the MGH Classic Chat. About 12 people were in there. I was scared, many things were new to me, being a caregiver was on top. This group of members, ((not all were female either)), had a very active Chat room. The things I learned I still draw on today and that has been 7 or 8 yrs.

All of us were new to this, we had at least 1 nurse, but they were as ignorant as the rest of us. Over the yrs, the loved one's have passed on. there are 2 left. A dear lady from Canada and my MIL. When the Classic Chats went down, we got scattered all over and some didn't come back, the Alzheimer's D forum at BT was not active. about 6 of us, but for one reason or another it just wasn't working.

I have requested a Alzheimer's Chat for several years, I was ignored. After the forums went down at BT I finally asked for a chat 1 more time. When it was clear the forums may or may not be fixed, even getting the forums back up. After watching DH add rooms right and left one night I added Alzheimer's to the list. Next day every wish had been granted except the Alzheimer's Chat. One of the Mods responded to me and said she would "remind" DH. Well, its name was up there but I never could get into the room. . I gave it up for DOA and had been looking for a Chat room or a group that were interested in helping their LO, taking care of them, the Nursing Home option etc.

This is long and I don't blame you if you remove it. All I ask is if you have time, please take a read and see if there is help within your system.

I have a vested interest in this disease and would like to learn more, have others to talk things out with etc. I would be forever grateful if you at least look at this long post. thank you , Julia

You will only see "Chat Tooms" there if you are logged in.

sooo...is anyone gonna chat?

( not me during csi )

oh cool I just found how to see who's in chat without logging in! at the bottom of your forum screen on the left >

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6932/chatnz7.jpg

might be helpful for ppl that don't like flash loading unnecessarily.

thanks TC I didn't know that about having to be logged in either!

I like that - but nobody in there- darn it!

me thinks we are all waiting for somebody to go in first...lol

k I'll go. have a little time before taking big brown dog for a run at the lake :p

My eyes are goin wonky just reading about it Sally. :D

I'll try to hang around in there today, so if anyone needs help getting their chat set up (you can change colors, etc.) pop in and let me know. I go away from my desk from time to time but normally no longer than 10-15 minutes.

Hi Ellie
 

I go into the Chats everyday. End up talking to myself. Well now, did meet up with Curious and maybe .........Artist? no sure See y'all in Chats

We had 8 last night! Need to start getting these going, I see this as a great chance to chat freely and build friendships. Last night, I got to learn about new conditions which was exciting (I'm always curious, it's my nature).

Someone come visit me :(

OK guys, how about we all meet in chat tomorrow (Thursday) at 7 PM EST. Just picking a time so we have a starting point. If it's bad, suggest another time.

joe

Will be trying to hang in chat today if anyone wants to talk!

Kimmydawn, did you get into the chat area? I clicked it on but nothing came up. Would you know how to get in?

Thanks, Cindy

Ellie, how do you get Chats to work?

Cindy

Cindy,

To join a particular chatroom:

At the top of the page you will see it says "Room" and next to it is a drop-down menu. From there, you can select which room you'd like to join.

When you look at the room listings to the right side, it will show you how many members are in each room, and by clicking the room name - it will show who is in the chatroom as well.

Hopefully that was what you meant. To join the chatroom, you can use this link:

http://forums.braintalk2.org/chat/flashchat.php

Or using the menu above on the forums here, click "Chat Rooms".

Ellie it comes up blank?

Hrm, that may be more of an issue for more computer savvy people. Let me ask around and see if anyone knows! :)

Cindy do you have flash enabled ?
If not you can download it here http://www.soft32.com/download_500.html

Are you using a Mac or PC..
what browser ? ex.. Internet explorer.. firefox.. AOL ?

any pop up blocking stuff that could be stopping the page from opening ?

just taking some guesses at this point.
It would be nice to see a few people in the chats :)
Pam

Thanks to all of you for you help regarding Chat. I will have to look into it further. (I tried posting and it didn't seem to go so trying again. If there are 2 thank you, sorry:))

Thank you Pam. It worked.

Ellie, I can now chat. Thanks.

cool !!!
now all we need are some people :D
I went to the OBT chat a couple of times, just because I enjoy the chat and there are usually a few people in there, but the other nite someone really got chewed out for a question that I asked. I dont know if the chat mod got us mixed up or what happened, but it made me pretty uncomfortable. I tried to confess, lol... didnt help.

hope to see some of you soon !