i decided to do it this way, because everyday another person joins MAO. We all had different problems for coming here, I would like to call it the green mile. Here all of us have ostomys, there’s plenty of knowledge . Where one can’t help with knowledge another can!!
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Hello Angelicamarie.
It seems like a good idea to welcome people collectively and I would certainly echo your remarks. However, I feel that it is still important to make sure people feel welcomed on a personal, one to one basis, as this is the essence of the sort of support that this site has to offer. I also agree with Xnine in encouraging new people to join in and look around the various sections of the site to see what interests them most. Personally, I do like browsing people's profiles to get a feel of who I am talking to and I get a lot of information from the 'collections' section.
Best wishes to you all.
Bill
