Has anyone heard from Chris lately? I've tried to get a hold of her a couple of different ways and she hasn't responded. I'm worried about her.

I know throw facebook that she was doing some traveling, but that's been a few weeks now.

I have just been wondering about her myself. Haven't seen or heard from her around here in ages. Hopefully she will reappear. I anyone hears from her let her know she is missed.

she did do some beta'ing for me, but looking back, it was almost three months ago now. How time flies. I will try to contact her again, just to let her know she's missed, and hope she get's back in touch.

Well, I found a number for her on the Internet and tried it, but I have no idea if it was really her or not. I left a really lame message -- Hi, it's me, your friend from the Internet. Lol. I felt like a stalker. Hopefully, if it was her voice mail, she'll know I meant well. :/

I've had to do similar lame things before, like when I had to know someone's name... I hope everything is okay with Chris!

Has anyone checked BIRDGO or any other site she post stories on or checked with admin there?

Well, time has passed but Chris has not resurfaced. I've tried contacting her via Facebook, email, and even that random phone call, but no dice. I can't shake the feeling that something is very wrong. Anyone heard anything or have any other ideas?

At times like these I wish I still had the job at the law firm -- I would have had access to Lexus Nexus...

Hope she's ok!!

Hmm, EW, that gives me some ideas ... maybe I could sue her for emotional distress and then we'd get someone to serve her paperwork and track her down that way. Or she could be in breach of contract at gatchamania - Cep could add in the fine print that regular posters are required to leave a forwarding address ... In all seriousness, though, I just hope she is okay. I miss her.

Originally posted by jublke In all seriousness, though, I just hope she is okay. I miss her.

Ditto

Does anyone have her mailing address?

Originally posted by Becky Rock Does anyone have her mailing address?

Good question. I don't.

Do you know if the phone number you have is to a cell phone or a land line?

EW, it was just one I found online. No one answered, so I left a message. I don't even know if it was really her number.

Just thought I'd ask.

EW: I'm glad you're asking. Her absence has been weighing on my mind for some time.

All I know is that "Chris White" is a pseudonym. I have no idea what her real name is.

Originally posted by littlewolf Has anyone checked BIRDGO or any other site she post stories on or checked with admin there?

Seeing this post about birdgo ..... When I get to the forum page I get a not saying .... this board has no fourms. Has there been a change over there? Maybe to stop lurkers? Or is the forum not working. Does anyone know? That would be another place I would look to see if Chris has been around, as LW said.

EW: I know her real name but that knowledge hasn't helped me track her down. I am stumped.

And again I find myself wishing I had access to Lexus Nexus. (Or could afford to open my own account...either way...)

Have you asked Boeke? Chris used to be a member of Birdscramble, IIRC, so Boeke may have some old contact information.

Great idea, TJ, I just fired off an email.

I miss CW, too! Hope she's ok!

Checking my internal and external memory banks.... Will let you know!

Let her know that she's been missed!

She made a post on facebook today. I commented on it that she should poke in over here. Hopefully, she'll get the message and come by.

That's good.

Whew!

I'm gonna write this before reading through the thread ... One of the beauties of my particular brain/personality/whatever is that sometimes I go into this rabbit hole swamp of a place where everything is blah and it's a real effort to interact with people. That's when I go into "hermit" mode. It's a real dickens to get out of the emotional creeping cruds but I am trying. Sorry for making folks worry, though I appreciate the concern. Alas even my own parents were poking me and demanding proof of life.

Good to see you coming out of hibernation! That's what a team is for... checking on our teammates.

I can understand that....I've felt like that before. We're just glad you're ok. We're here for you when you need us!

So good to hear from you again, CW! I'm so relieved on just hearing that you're okay! You don't need to apologise because it's everyone's right to have that "lone" time, every now and then, to recollect oneself! LOL ... I do that a lot of times, so I can completely understand! Life could already be hard in itself, and having to include everyone in it sometimes could be really overwhelming, too! Rejoin us whenever you'd feel comfortable as you'll always find us here for you!

Chris!!! You're here!!! Break out the bubbly, gals! (Edited once to make sure all of the smilies were dancing and drinking like they are supposed to.)

WB, Chris!

I think everyone gets like that once in awhile, CW. I know I do! (I call it "falling into a hole" myself). The board is always here when you're ready!

Glad you're feeling better, Chris!

Glad to see you back, Chris. We're always here if you need a boost.

Glad to see you're ok, Chris!

Good to see you, Chris!

I've been reading through things trying to catch up, hoping that'll help me stay out of the hole this time. A few times now I've thought I was feeling a lot better and then I pulled another "I've fallen and I can't get up" just days later. Bleh. Uh, an update ... mostly around family health issues, which are getting a little crazy. Just need to lay it all out there and whine. My father has liver cancer. They keep taking the tumors out and the tumors keep coming back, but this was expected to happen eventually because he has hepatitis C. His reaction isn't as bad as Walter White in Breaking Bad, but he has taken it as an excuse to be a bit of a dick. It didn't help my stress levels during the visit that he listens non-stop to far right wing stuff on TV and the radio at volumes that could make your ears bleed. Lies and misrepresentations are bad enough. At a volume so loud you can't tune it out, I thought I was going to have a psychotic break during the loooooong drive to visit my brother during my visit home. Fortunately I'd brought good headphones. Very loud music helped. My mother was having all kinds of weird problems like coughing constantly and almost throwing up whenever she ate, and it turns out to be new allergies in a huge way (food and environmental). Eliminating a lot of it has been difficult (chocolate?!?!? malt??? lettuce?? spinach?? barley?? hops??) but she says she feels loads better, isn't coughing, and isn't feeling sick anymore. Fortunately she doesn't really drink so there's no need to quit drinking beer. Unfortunately, things like malt are in a LOT of products. When I went home to FL to visit the folks I discovered that I have a lovely new allergy or something. It's a form of eczema (Dyshidrosis) where exposure to heat (and possibly sunlight) makes you break out with tiny blisters (it's kind of like goosebumps) on the backs of your hands and up the arms and on the face. Made me feel like a plucked chicken. Also gave me splotchy hives around my ankles. Added some surreal mystery to my visit. Saw the doctor when I got home just to understand what it was. Apparently I was a bit lucky in that it never itched. I've had a couple more breakouts since then when it got really hot here and one of the times it itched like crazy, ugh. So far I think that for me it has to be a combo of heat and sunlight. The hubby has somehow cracked some ribs (no idea how). At the same time, he's been having kidney stone problems, this bout has been directly next to the ribs so it took a while to figure out that he had more than just a kidney stone problem. Worse, the stone is in a lower duct so gravity won't pull it out, but it's not big enough to use ultrasound/whatever to break it up, so they have to leave it there and let it grow until it's ready. My motherinlaw just had her 2nd anaphalatic reaction out of the blue. Fortunately she had an epipen this time as she was an hour from a hospital. So far they think that it's a bad reaction to her blood pressure medication, which can apparently cause this after taking it a long while, and the stuff stays in your system for 4 months after you stop taking it so you can still have reactions after stopping. The irony is that I'm on the same med and have been having some issues. Time to change meds. Hubby wonders if they're a side cause of my eczema. Oh yeah, and my brother joined the thyroid tumor club with me and my mom. I think that's it for the family dramas. And I wonder why I feel like emotional roadkill most of the time ...

CW ... I'm speechless! I can only send you virtual hugs when I feel that I should be squeezing you in person! I hope that writing things down and sharing them with us has alleviated some of the weight you're carrying on your shoulders in some way! I'm instantly adding you and your family to my prayers, hoping that things would calm down for you as soon as possible! Find me whenever you might need some more venting out!

OMG...sounds like RL is crazy for you, CW! I'm with Gatchamarie in sending virtual hugs your way!

I'm sending you my best wishes as well, CW.

I'm so sorry to hear you're having such troubles, CW. And it's hard dealing with parents when they're unwell.

CW, When it rains it pours. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts. Stress can do strange things to the body, too, including causing rashes and hives, or make an allergic reaction even worse. My mother developed a similar problem one summer and was told you can be allergic to sunlight because it causes so many different chemical reactions in the atmosphere that affects everyone differently.

Apparently you can have a pseudo-allergy to sunlight also because of some weird side-reaction the sunlight causes in your body, where you're allergic to the reaction and not the sunlight. Strange stuff. I'm pretty fair-skinned and not generally a sun or heat lover (I easily overheat), so it's not entirely surprising I guess. My parents and my brother tan really well. I tend more toward burning. There's a reason I prefer BC to FL, heh. And yes, eczema is supposed to be made worse by stress as well. The hubby is visiting his parents out east. His mother's anaphylactic reaction happened the other day with him out there. Today, he's back at the ER, but this time with his father, who's got a nosebleed that won't stop. Apparently they've put a rubber clamp on his nose while they wait for triage, heh. Hubby is apparently amusing himself by listening to waiting room explanations of turkey-related injuries (thanksgiving weekend here in Canada). Oh, one thing definitely had me thinking of you guys ... was watching NCIS: LA and G. and Sam were discussing their favorite cartoons as kids. Sam guessed that G.'s was G-Force (probably because G. was an orphan). It was actually Mighty Mouse but I got a kick out of the mention.

Hugs, Chris! That's a lot to have on your plate. Hope things improve for all soon. <3

Nosebleeds are not to be messed with. I hope they get it under control.

Apparently he snapped a nasal artery. He's got a balloon up his nose at the moment and goes back tomorrow for another look.

When enough is never enough! Hope things for your father-in-law turn out well, too! Thanks God there's this series which can take our minds off things ... eh, CW!?

I know you're busy trying to catch up, Chris. And I'm not sure if you've seen this yet. But, if you haven't, and you'd like a giggle, you might like to take a look at this: http://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1488

Hope things only go up from here, Chris!

Chris, it is great to see you back again. I am sorry to hear you have had a hard time though. As others have said, we are here to support you. I am also sorry I am late in my welcome, but as you know this weekend was Thanksgiving here in Canada and I was not at home where I could access the internet.

No one's being timed. After all, I made y'all wait.

You made us all "worry" because we were waiting so long. It is great to see you participating and getting your perspective on topics again. I enjoy reading your insight into the characters.

sorry for the delay in welcoming you back, Chris. it sounds like you have been having a hard time of it. I don't blame you for needing some time out, I think everyone needs it once in a while. I hope RL turns around for you soon and better fortunes come your way.

Picking the hubby up from the airport in a couple of hours. Will be nice to have him home. Apparently the air's been so dry where he was with his folks that the ER was getting a lot of people with nosebleeds. I know that I have to be careful when I visit dry climates and use a humidifier for that very reason. Probably best that I stayed home, heh.

Hopefully this is the end of the bad things for a long while.

Hear, hear!!

I hope everything only gets easier now for you, and your family, Chris -sometimes real life is too damned real. *hugs*

No new bad health news so far!

That's wonderful, Chris!

Phew!

Btw, my elder niece just spent a week in the hospital with a serious kidney infection, took all that time to get her fever down. She finally got released. Ugh. (She's a freshman in university so she's away from home too.)

Tell the Fates to go bother someone else. You'd had more than your share of things, CW. I'm glad your niece is out of the hospital.

Amen ... though I don't want to wish this bad health luck on other people either.

(((Hugs))) I hope things settle down soon. Are you sure there isn't a Galactor curse on your house?

Hmm, if there is it's pretty powerful, given that my family is spread over a border and across a continent.

So my dad has had his 2nd gall bladder attack. They haven't wanted to remove it since his diabetes makes him a terrible healer, and with liver cancer he's got enough problems, but he's also got air bubbles in his intestines or something and so might have a perforation. He's put his foot down and said to take the gall bladder anyway as he doesn't want to live his life on pain meds. I don't blame him. Surgery is Thurs morning and they'll try to check out the intestinal thing at the same time I think. He has the feeling he'll be in the hospital for quite a while. I'm telling himself that would at least mean he makes it through the surgery. Whee.

I think I can speak for everybody when I say we'll keep you in our thoughts & prayers, CW.

Oh dear- Chris, I'm not sure if this will help, but my mom has Diabetes and she had her gall bladder out last year. She did pretty well, and she is feeling better now. I hope your dad heals quicker than you think and gets some much needed relief. *hugs*

Hoping things go well for your Dad, Chris!

I'm diabetic too and don't have much trouble healing. My dad's another story. A surgical thing took 2 years to heal once. Spent a lot of time going to a wound centre. It's not like that all the time, though. Crossing fingers.

Originally posted by ElectricWhite I think I can speak for everybody when I say we'll keep you in our thoughts & prayers, CW.

Hoping that everything goes smoothly, Chris.

TheOtherJason went through something similar last year. He's still recovering, but making significant progress. I'm sure your Dad will recover from this as well.

Oh dear Chris, keeping you in my thoughts today.

They were able to do the surgery laprascopically so that's good. Took extra time due to scar tissue but he came through okay.

Oh, that is good news Chris, it must be a huge weight off your mind.

Originally posted by ChrisW They were able to do the surgery laprascopically so that's good. Took extra time due to scar tissue but he came through okay.

So glad to hear!

Thank goodness, Chris. You and your family must be very relieved! Sending speedy healing vibes to your dad!

Letting out a sigh of relief It's about time things started looking up for you. Still, I'm sending you a hug for good measure!

I'm happy to hear that things are looking better, CW, and always keep in mind that you and your family would always be in my prayers and thoughts! Never lose hope! Adding my hugs

That's wonderful, Chris. Diabetes seems to affect each person differently with its level of severity. I wish your Dad a speedy recovery.

Chris, so glad it went well!

Well, my dad hasn't had any issues with things like losing body parts, so on that front his diabetes isn't too bad. Sounds like he's doing well in the hospital and the goal is for him to go home tomorrow. It's still amazing to me that people can have serious surgery and be able to go home so fast.