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Poster I often think about...

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CamperVan79 · 23/08/2021 01:00

It's the lady from the chutney threads. I read all her threads and kept up with her son being born and all the other things that happened and I often think of her and wonder if she's ok. He must be at least 8 by now

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VeryLongBeeeeep · 23/08/2021 09:14

Members of the BESH from the Conception board. I was a long time lurker, willing them all on to win their baybees. I sometimes see Eurochick and CaveMum still posting, but I often wonder about how some of the others like Ginhag, Ariesgirl, MadameBoo, LauraPalmer, CockDodger and others are getting on.

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CamperVan79 · 23/08/2021 09:16

I'm glad she's ok.. I followed so many of her threads but she seemed to disappear and I lost track of her name.
I hope her son is well too, I had a baby at the same time and loved to read about her little boy and their cats

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TooWicked · 23/08/2021 09:16

Years ago there was a poster called FabbyChic, I loved her posts, she was blunt but hilarious and she just seemed to disappear one day.

There have been other variations on that name but they’re not her.

Summerrain123 · 23/08/2021 09:17

@WaterIsBest

How did you find out she had died?

Pleasebe2022 · 23/08/2021 09:23

Anyone know about wardrobes? A lady had a thread as her husband had covid and it was touch and go for a while. Last update I saw he had turned a corner.

RevolvingPivot · 23/08/2021 09:25

I never understand how people know someone has died or that they are now posting under a different username. This site is anonymous??

ShuddaBeenMe · 23/08/2021 09:26

I was thinking about wardrobes DH too

I don't think the poster did die of sepsis. I think it was someone trolling.

But it's still dangerous to give advice like that here.

UrgentExitRequiredLOD · 23/08/2021 09:26

I often think of two posters that I enjoyed following their lives and reading updates - TrickyTreeLou and GetOrfMoiLand. I’d love to hear how they are.

MrsCalypsoGrant · 23/08/2021 09:28

@Pleasebe2022 I seem to remember that Wardrobes' mum or sister posted to update too...

There was a thread years ago where a woman posted to say that her husband had left the family home a few days prior & had been silent. Then she had received contact from him to say he had moved to Australia to be with a woman he had met online. He had secretly arranged to sign all his UK property & assets over to his wife before he left & was very clear that he was never returning to the UK, was divorcing her & wanted nothing more to do with their two children who were around 10 & 12 I think. I remember wondering if it was fake but it went on some while & I think the poster checked out. It was in my early Mumsnet days so I wasn't heavily involved but it seemed such chilling behaviour.

SunshineCake · 23/08/2021 09:33

Lavender something
GettingBigger then GettingBetter
Wavesandsmiles
OnlyJoking
MamaG
PsychoMumof5
Wardrobes123 dh and family

WinterCarlisle · 23/08/2021 09:35

MarmaladeTwatkins - I loved her threads. Wasn’t she the one who started the whole punching a cake / lemon drizzle sagas?

CatThiefKeith was hilarious. She and I send each other’s family members spoof round robin Christmas card letters one year. Hers was brilliant. I was so upset when she died.

nonotmenotI · 23/08/2021 09:37

There was a woman who was pregnant to her husband who was an arsehole to her. He was abusive, said he was going to take the baby and send her back to her home country.

She left and got on a plane and went home to her family in her home country.

I always wonder about her and her baby and hope she's having a wonderful life now.

x2boys · 23/08/2021 09:40

@RosieLemonade

MN should ban threads asking about going to A and E or out of hours. 111 nearly always suggest seeing a medical professional. Why would randomers on MN know any better.
They should ban all threads asking for medical advice, as a lot of the "advice" is questionable to say the least That said if i was ill enough to be considering going to A&E i wouldnt post on here!
PowerhouseOfTheCell · 23/08/2021 09:40

Poster who claimed quarantining the post wasn’t enough she used to just burn it in the back garden when it came through the letterbox. Hope her and her massive bonfire are ok

Ninkanink · 23/08/2021 09:42

There have been more than a few women’s lives saved by MN ‘should I go to A&E/seek medical help?’ threads too.

Chocolatebuttercream · 23/08/2021 09:45

There was a poster called physicskate who used to post in the infertility boards when I was doing the same. One day she vanished and I often wonder if she had a happy outcome.

Fluffycloudland77 · 23/08/2021 10:06

We do need to stop dishing out advice on here about not going to A+E, if you think you need to go you probably do.

If you don’t the drs will let you know.

Ninkanink · 23/08/2021 10:14

Yes quite.

WeAreTheHeroes · 23/08/2021 10:22

@RevolvingPivot

I never understand how people know someone has died or that they are now posting under a different username. This site is anonymous??
Some people PM off board and get to know each other, plus there used to be meet ups every now and then.
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CamperVan79 · 23/08/2021 10:25

Yes that's the lady i mean

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CamperVan79 · 23/08/2021 10:26

That was supposed to be a reply to someone upthread

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GoldFrankensteinAndGrrr · 23/08/2021 10:27

@WaterIsBest

I will always remember the poster who asked for advice on here , she was a regular, had been around awhile

She was ill and was contemplating going to A&E,
People responded with ‘Dont go to A&E,
If your posting on here, You cant be that ill…

She died of sepsis

I always think about her when people post advice to not go to A&E.
Its very dangerous and i dont think it should be allowed

How did you find out she'd died?

There was a thread by a poster who was having a frighteningly heavy period who was advised by some not to waste A&E's time, iirc. Thankfully she disregarded that advice and went with her instincts (and the sensible posters who advised otherwise) and got herself to hospital - it was touch and go, and if she hadn't gone she'd have died. I often think of that thread, particularly when I see some of the questionable medical advice on here. Recently there was a poster who was concerned she was having a heart attack who was told A&E wouldn't see her because Covid. Bonkers.

Aside from that - there was a lovely poster on the Covid board, @kittensarecute, who was having a really tough time last year. I often think of her and wonder how she's doing. Tagging in case she's still on MN, though I've not seen her for a while - if so, I hope you're ok Flowers

BillinaTheChickenQueen · 23/08/2021 10:30

@WaterIsBest

I will always remember the poster who asked for advice on here , she was a regular, had been around awhile

She was ill and was contemplating going to A&E,
People responded with ‘Dont go to A&E,
If your posting on here, You cant be that ill…

She died of sepsis

I always think about her when people post advice to not go to A&E.
Its very dangerous and i dont think it should be allowed

I don’t remember this at all, was it recently ? How awful.
BillinaTheChickenQueen · 23/08/2021 10:33

Yy to the unsafe advice.
I remember reading some awful advice on here about lack of babies movement late in pregnancy. From someone claiming to be a medic.

Ticklyrain · 23/08/2021 10:37

There was a poster who moved to New Zealand on her husbands insistence as he wanted to come home. He then reverted to behaving like his 18 year old self, and his toxic family kept interfering. She was living in deepest dullest suburbia, couldn’t work in her chosen field and has basically had the rug pulled from under her. She just wanted to go back to the UK but he wouldn’t give permission for the children to leave.

I think her name was WitchesWizards or similar. I really hope that life has turned around for her.