I hope I can make this short and sweet!!
I have been reading this board for 4 years, I am a quiet person, a CPA and yes I am probably as boring as they get. So I guess what I am saying is maybe I don't type well so I have typos (which thanks for pointing those out to me) and I also am not an eloquient writer, I m a numbers person.
In the last year of reading the Roxy chronicles I grew to care about her as others seem to have. As I stated before without getting into detail, I lost someone special to a misdiagnosed and undertreated stroke, that I feel could have been prevented by proper treatment. So I gathered all my courage to ask Roxy about her treatment because I really do not want this to happen to anyone else. It took a lot of courage for me to post.
I have been insulted and called names. I am not any of those things. So many people have PMed me that are not brave enough to post either. Thank you!!! They do not want to open themselves up to the scrutiny and attacks, and I can not blame them.
If your purpose was to hurt me , you have, I am sitting here crying like a baby. Yes, I am a human being just like all of you, probaby not very different at all, I just made the mistake I guess of feeling strongly enough about Roxy getting appropriate treatment of her stroke to open myself to this pain.
I have learned my lesson, thank you for teaching me that I am not worthy.
HI Daisy,
I'm sorry for not supporting you sooner. But the last time I posted something in disagreement w/Roxy I was attacked from all sides. I also received a lot of pm's in support of my stance but no one would come out to support me.
I cannot understand why people think it is constructive to let a friend go down a totally destructive path without trying to help them find a better way. It seems to me that all the folks that claim to care about Roxy just get caught up in the drama.
I have gone thru a lot in my life as well, and was once married to an alchololic, so I do understand some of the same issues. But, I choose to try and deal with my problems in a more constructive manner. Putting all the details of your life on a message board is not a way to get healing, its a way to get attention.
Once again, I am sorry you have had to suffer thru all the insults. I'm sorry I didn't speak up earlier, but I didn't want to get all banged up again just from having an opinion.
Crispy
Daisy,
I guess my skin isn't as thick as I thought it was either. I'm going to try to post and reply only to "directly related" RA items from now on. I've got too much crap in my life as it is to deal with all of this stuff. I'm sorry you got hurt.
Oh my gosh, Thank you both so much, I am still sitting here crying. Stupid I ever let this bother me I guess. But at least I am brave enough to post now LOL!!!! I may never shut up now!!! Which is hysterical because I am a very quiet shy person. I am coming out of my shell!! Watch out!!
Karen
Daisy I am sorry you are hurting. You didn't do or say anything wrong.try not to get too upset about it all. We need people that will make comments that will help people to stop and think. I don't always agree with those I consider friends here and they know I'll let them know it when I don't agree. Sometimes that upsets people.....but they get over it.
It's important for us all to try to relay these messages in a manner where people can see our true intentions and not think that these comments are meant solely to hurt people. There is a big difference here and if you stick around a while you'll notice that.
Lovie, Daisy's been on here for several years. She has "stuck around for a while" already.Great!! Glad you're here, hope you'll stay.Yes, your right SOD, Thank you LOL!!! Just had multiple loggin probs!! And like a say I'm a pretty quiet person, but I can be fun!!!! At least I think I am funny!!!!Everythings good. We are all going to stick around.Daisy,
You know, thats not true, there are alot of people that are genuine. There have been so many people on this board that have been my lifeline through alot of different trials. So to say that they dont play by the same rules as face to face is not fair and it goes to show that you dont know a lot of those that are on here as well as you seem to think you do. Like Alan for example, He paid for my airfare w/ his airline miles so i could go to the Arthritis thing in DC (sorry my brain is not workin w/ what it was called). How many people doyou know that woudl do that? Come on , give some of these people on here a little more credit then that
I worked the system and got you a room for 0 less than average - WOMAN!HAHAH yea i thought about after i posted it "OHH NO i forgot Katie " LOL yea i dont knwo what this thread was about either LOL
so for the record
KATIE ROCKS TOO!!!!!
No see Kelsaysmom, we just did it, I was saying that alot can be misinterpreted with an on line conversation. You think I'm putting people down and I wasn't at all. They don't play by the same rules, wrongly implies they are trying to bend the rules for their own gain and that's not what I meant. Because these "conversations" don't play by the same rules as normal face to face conversation, where you have instant feed back and can ask for more details or whatever, then comments do get misinterpreted. I have gotten lots of help here and I'm glad your "friendships" here have led to more intimate relationships, that have helped you even more than just on line comments.Daisey, i bet you are a good friend! i would hope for a friend like you to telll me when they see something isnt adding up, or that i may be hurting myself. That is a good friend. we may not like to hear it but, its because people like you care. i believe you are good people daisy!
kel
Thank you All for sticking yourselves out there for me!!!!! It's been a challenge to say the least. I have never seen people be so mean and the names I was called. It seemed like people didn't even read the original post , but just started attacking because others were. OH MY!!! That is all I can say. I have never experienced name calling and insults like this before, so it is not what I used to. Glad I missed out on it all these years.
Deidre, You made me laugh with the image of me behind the HUGE stacks of paper, you have it dead on, that was me!!!!!
Kel, I try to be a good friend, and I know I appreciate my friends so much more that RA has slowed me down. I have more time and I feel sorry I was always so busy working before I missed out on a lot and didn't cultivate the friendships as I should have.
I have never been in a chatroom or posted very many times on a message board. I am very techno challenged. Heck I still have dialup! LOL!!!! I did not even know what the PM was here until I started getting messages LOL!!!!
Crispy, SOD, Miles, thank you for being brave enough to speak up and to all of thank you for the sound advice!!!!
Karen
PS You do realize with dialup it takes me 10 minutes to post this!!!!!
Daisy, I'm sorry that you felt you had to apologize for being so honest aboutHooray Lorster!
Finally, someone with some GUTS on this board. Thanks
Phats