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| Nick | About the Op | Userpic | |
| Jason | Jason is the webmaster of Living with a Colostomy and the founder/owner of the Ostomyland chatroom. He also hosts the Ostomyland Interactive Support Board & Community Message Board. Jason is well respected within the ostomy community and his website is highly regarded. |
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| Shaz | Shaz is the webmaster of the successful Shaz's Ostomy Pages and hosts the popular Shaz's Ostomy Pages Message Board. Shaz was 10 years old when she had her ileostomy operation and is a very experienced and respected ostomate. |
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| Kathy | Kathy is the wife of an ileostomate, who has had his ileostomy for 21 years. She initially nursed him for the first 3 years and so is familiar herself with the stoma routine. Kathy's Ostomy Links website contains links to websites, message boards, journals, etc. offering advice and support for all ostomates. Her Autoimmunity website offers information relating to IBD. |
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| Sean | Sean is an ileostomate and is able to advise on living with a stoma. He owns Eggie - the chatroom bot - which helps to protect the channel and keep it safe. Sean also produces the hourly stats via Eggie, and provides the weather, dictionary etc. |
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| Leeann | LeeAnn is an ileostomate. She is able to advise on life with a stoma. She is also a nurse (not an ET nurse) and so has a wealth of knowledge to offer. |
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| Danae | Danae is the webmaster of The Ostomy Network of Windsor website and has lived with an ileostomy for 18 years. She has a lot of experience to offer about life with an ostomy. |
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| Alva | Alva has a permanent colostomy. She understands what it is like to come to terms with the shock of a stoma after emergency surgery. Alva also lives with a serious medical condition and short bowel syndrome. |
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| Douglas | Douglas had a colostomy as a result of an operation for prostate cancer. The colostomy was successfully reversed. He is able to help and give advice on the reversal process, the recovery and the adjustment afterwards. |
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| Jimbob | Jimbob has a colostomy and is considering irrigation later. He has received his ostomy quite recently, and therefore has experience of coping with a change of lifestyle later in his working life. |
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| Pauline | Pauline is experienced with bringing up a child with bowel problems and a colostomy. Her son, now 13, has had his colostomy for four years. |
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| Simon | Simon has had a urostomy since the age of four. He has therefore had experience of school and adolescence with an ostomy. His fiance has a colostomy and an internal pouch, so he has valuable knowledge of these too. |
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An Op or Happy Helper is someone with a good knowledge of an ostomy and ostomy life who is willing to share this knowledge with others. There are Ops and Happy Helpers from several different time zones to enable the room to be open 24/7. We work as a team, so no one person needs to always be "on duty". We aim: To welcome people into the chatroom, make them feel "at home" if they are new and encourage discussions. To help people find the information to their questions. To link people up with other ostomates who may be able to help. We also keep this room safe and welcoming. This involves: Banning the odd person who comes in purely to make trouble (Trolls). Maintaining a family-minded channel atmosphere. Keeping the peace when members disagree with each other. From time to time it is necessary to ban members. This is most unpleasant and we do not enjoy this, nor do we undertake this lightly. Banning occurs when the chatroom rules are broken. This may be a one-off serious incident or it may be after several warnings have been issued. Wherever possible the person concerned is contacted and informed of the reasons for the ban. Bans are never given without good reason. |
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Each Op and Happy Helper can be contacted by putting their name before @ostomysupport.info apart from Shaz who can be contacted at Shaz(please remove)@ostomates.org |
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All Ops and Happy Helpers can add your photo to the Stats page. Email your picture to them, including a request that it goes on the stats page. |
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| Nick | Userpic | ||
| Jason | Jason has very limited online access for health reasons at the moment. He will answer emails but please be patient. |
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| Danae | Danae has moved house and has started a demanding job. Her online time is therefore more limited. |
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Chatroom Rules Please read the chatroom rules and the chatroom news before you join us for the very first time. |
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Java Chat Click here Enter Chat and join us in the chat room. A free-to-use Java Client is embedded into the page that is dead easy to use. Nothing to download. | |
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Chatroom Help - step by step guide We often have members who have never been in a chatroom before. Please don't be nervous. These pages will show you exactly what to expect and what to do. If you're still unsure after you've looked at them, email Kathy or Sean for help. Chatroom Help - step by step guide | |
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Still having problems accessing java? Read these FAQs to help you: Java Chat Problems/Support | |
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Help for using the smilies can be found here: How to use the smilies |
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mIRC etc. If you use mIRC, or Besirc or some other IRC Chat Client, here's the server details you need to connect: Server: irc.zirc.org Port: 6667 Channel: #ostomyland | |
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Jason has configured a version of mIRC which will take you directly to Ostomyland. Full details and the download link can be found at Download mIRC | |
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WebTV Users WebTV Users, you need to use your own TV based software to join us - included free as part of the WebTV browser software. Use the server and port and channel info when requested by your software to join. Server: irc.zirc.org Port: 6667 Channel: #ostomyland |
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View the Ostomyland Member List See which country people are from and the type of ostomy they have. View the Ostomyland Member List | |
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Ostomyland Stats The Stats page has photos of many of the regular users of the Chatroom. Plus quotes - Eggie always manages to find the worst line you've ever said... #ostomyland @ Zirc.org stats by Egbert | |
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Message Board - Ostomyland Chat User Profiles - Section Whether you visit it daily, or just for the saturday meetings, this is the place to post a profile of yourself if you are a user of the #ostomyland IRC Chat room! Introduce Yourself & Chat Room User Profiles |
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