Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Please review Brian's post. His post explains how we get thousands of hits every single day from other countries and also OCF's limitations.
Unless we have some members volunteer to help her themselves there isnt much that can be done here on the forum. I think it would be best if someone who is fluent in Spanish would volunteer to reach out to her (thru email). They first will need to explain (by translating) exactly what Brian wrote in his post.
My concern is that by helping one person on the forum with their posts in a non-English language it could potentially open up the flood gates to many other posts in all kinds of other languages. This would not be something OCF could ever keep up with. Try to think about it this way, by having posts on the forum in Spanish, anyone who reads and writes in Spanish and who does internet searches for OC or anything discussed in those posts will find this and could also begin posting. Since none of the admin are fluent in any other language it would take an incredible amount of one on one time which takes us away from our regular admin duties. Brian, David and myself all do not have that kind of time on our hands. While I want to help and its really hard for me to say we cant help her, its just not anything that we could keep up with.
I would like to ask for someone or even better 2 members to volunteer to send her emails. Please PM me as I would like to have you include some info.
Thank you!
PS.... All the posts need to stay on this thread so they are together in one place.
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