susanW, thank you for the kind words about what those that come to this site have to offer others. We just picked up a new person in the office, Jamie, who spends 2/3'rd of her day each day doing outreach to treatment facilities. It isn't an easy job to get through to someone at the hospitals. Our best success has been in getting staff in the social services department to want to have our literature there. Getting it into the hands of the nurses in the radiation treatment areas and in the chemo areas is harder. We actually have two cards, one of them tells about the OCF web site and the information, and the other is a direct set of instructions on how to navigate via the web right to this board. They are just as big as a postcard.

Getting those cards at the radiation check in desk racks, and elsewhere in the hospitals is difficult, not because they don't ant them, but because they are swamped with dealing with the daily workload, and too busy to take the time to talk to us about what we can help them with. Of course separating them from an email address or other means of contacting them is even harder. But we do make progress. Anyone on these boards that is going back for treatments or recall visits that would like to hand carry a few cards for these places with them, please contact [email protected] or call her at the OCF office (949) 273-4400, and she will see that you get some to take with you on your next visit. Your help would be greatly appreciated.