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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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WTF475878237NC · 23/08/2021 10:38

EMIN died? She seemed like such a lovely lady. I hope the baby will still get to read the letter she wrote and know how much she was loved from the get go.

BoreOfWhabylon · 23/08/2021 10:39

[quote Froppysue]@BoreOfWhabylon I’m sitting in hospital right now with my poorly dd sleeping next to me. I’ve sat and read that thread and I’m now bawling my eyes out! What a wonderful woman she was, thank you for sharing the link Flowers[/quote]
I defy anyone not to cry at that thread @Froppysue.

I hope you managed to get some rest and that your dd is improved this morning Flowers

WTF475878237NC · 23/08/2021 10:47

Just saw an update from EMIN on another thread in the summer before she passed away, which would have been two years after little one was adopted:

Sadly after the first few weeks of the odd mobile photo I haven't heard anything from our little drug dependent baby at all. It hurts, can't say any more, it's not my right.

That makes me so sad. But lovely to read her post that she fostered 85 children and babies.

GreatestShowman · 23/08/2021 10:49

In the earlier days of covid a lady posted to ask whether she'd be unreasonable going to A&E as she'd been having some worrying symptoms for a while, I don't remember her username unfortunately but it turned out she had an aggressive type of cancer. Does anybody know who I mean and how she is? I've thought about her alot.

ThePontiacBandit · 23/08/2021 10:51

@VeryLongBeeeeep

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.
Some of us are still around! I was a BESH who won my baybee after 2 years 8 months of TTC, she is 8 now! Many of us did win our baybees, unfortunately some didn’t…Many of us have kept in touch (though not on MN any more).

I miss CatThiefKeith. She was so funny. I saw via Wooly Hugs it’s been 4 years since she died. Can’t quite believe that.

Whenever I hear “Call me maybe” by Carly Rae Jepson I think of ExpatinScotland and her precious DD Eilidh who loved that song ❤️

ThePontiacBandit · 23/08/2021 10:52

GreatestShowman was it TwitterQueen? She had a large stomach and had been fobbed off and it turned out to be ovarian cancer.

cervixuser · 23/08/2021 10:52

expatinscotland is someone I think about - on Saturday night Call Me Maybe popped up in my Spotify and it reminded me of her and her beautiful daughter.
I also think about Hully and Pagwatch and wish they were still here dispensing fun

Wookydook · 23/08/2021 10:55

There was a lady who had moved to South America to be with her "DP". He completely ignored her, and when she met his work colleagues for drinks they couldn't believe he had a partner - I think because he either had another girl on the go in work or because he acted like a single man. But she loved him. I wonder what she did...

GreatestShowman · 23/08/2021 11:05

@ThePontiacBandit

GreatestShowman was it TwitterQueen? She had a large stomach and had been fobbed off and it turned out to be ovarian cancer.
I think it was a form of leukaemia but I may not be remembering correctly, if not the same person then I hope they are both doing ok. Just awful Sad
Peridot1 · 23/08/2021 11:12

@GreatestShowman

In the earlier days of covid a lady posted to ask whether she'd be unreasonable going to A&E as she'd been having some worrying symptoms for a while, I don't remember her username unfortunately but it turned out she had an aggressive type of cancer. Does anybody know who I mean and how she is? I've thought about her alot.
I remember her too. I think she sent her DCs to stay with her parents or in-laws while she was having treatment.
Peridot1 · 23/08/2021 11:14

I often think of the poster in NZ too and hope she is ok. She was so unhappy and her H and his family were a nightmare.

And I’m another who always thinks of Expat and her DD when I hear Call Me Maybe.

Winterjoy · 23/08/2021 11:29

Must have been between 5-10 years ago there was a poster who was asking for advice about stopping contact between her son and his abusive dad. From her accounts the family court was not acting in her son's favour - last I remember the dad was insisting on calling the DS by a random name, DS was terrified of going to overnight contact etc. If I recall correctly posters were providing details of a barrister that might be able to help. I lost track of the thread and often hope things worked out in their favour (I think it might have been in 30 days only?)

MyShoelaceIsUndone · 23/08/2021 11:32

Woman who didn’t know she was pregnant and found out within a few weeks if actually giving birth. This was last year

AlternativePerspective · 23/08/2021 11:43

Apparently about 90% of deaths announced online are trolls.

My instant thought about saying someone was told not to ring a&e so she didn’t but died I would automatically assume that they were a troll.

Let’s be honest, would any of your DH’s or families think to log on to mn and update that had died? Of course they wouldn’t.

I often think of @misdee and I have tagged her previously in these types of threads. I remember giving out my mobile number to a MN’er (it was back in the early days when MN was much smaller) the night her DH had a heart transplant and I had to go out but wanted to know if he’d come through.

IIRC they went on to have another 4 or 5 children after that.

student26 · 23/08/2021 11:43

One was Rainypuddles I think, the ladu who had terrible problems with her neighbours over the puddles appearing in their yard that was obviously not her fault. Thread was stopped and I hoped everything turned out ok for her.
Also, young lady who found out she was pregnant and had the baby who was so scared about what her parents would say but it turned out they had seen the scan photo and thought she had an abortion without telling them. I think she had another baby. Hope she is ok too ❤️

playmelikeasymphony · 23/08/2021 11:45

TwitterQueen was the poster who was told not to go to A&E who turned out to have ovarian cancer. She died a couple of years ago.

There was also another poster who was advised not to go to A&E last year who was then diagnosed with leukaemia. Can’t remember their name.

jesusmaryjosephandtheweedonkey · 23/08/2021 11:50

Ophelia Rose from way back. I often wonder how she and her twins are doing.

AlternativePerspective · 23/08/2021 11:53

It was widely suspected that she was a troll.

Gsp2 · 23/08/2021 11:57

[quote CliffsofMohair]@Epponnee I often think of Ghostie and her brood. I hope she is settled and happy. MN wasn’t always kind to her.[/quote]
I'm still about alot thought /think I'm a troll. I name change constantly now sadly. This name will be a one use as not willing to take the crap I have in the past. But ita also lovely to see that a handful of people do think about me and the kids

StCharlotte · 23/08/2021 12:01

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.

I remember that. It was terrifying.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 23/08/2021 12:04

MissHooliesCardigan

AlphabetAerobics · 23/08/2021 12:13

@VeryLongBeeeeep former BESH here. I won two baybees in the end. I’m still in touch with a few. Our lives all diverged and there have been trials and tribulations along the way - but I’ll never forget our community.

VeryLongBeeeeep · 23/08/2021 12:16

It's lovely to hear from some former BESH! It probably sounds a bit weird/stalkery but although I never posted, because I wasn't TTC-ing, I used to follow the threads - all those fun, witty themes; the paint chart and the Pit and poor shagged-out Cap'n Jack Grin - and always got a little bit of (baby)dust in my eye at every hard won BFP.

Nannewnannew · 23/08/2021 12:27

I remember, maybe about 4-5 years ago, a poster who was concerned about her 3 year old son who had developed a limp but with no history of trauma and should she see her GP / or go to A&E? Sadly there were some very unhelpful and sarcastic replies along with posters urging her to definitely take her son to A&E which she then decided she would do, but the poster never returned and I often think about the little boy and hope that he is ok.

disco123 · 23/08/2021 12:31

@Winterjoy

Must have been between 5-10 years ago there was a poster who was asking for advice about stopping contact between her son and his abusive dad. From her accounts the family court was not acting in her son's favour - last I remember the dad was insisting on calling the DS by a random name, DS was terrified of going to overnight contact etc. If I recall correctly posters were providing details of a barrister that might be able to help. I lost track of the thread and often hope things worked out in their favour (I think it might have been in 30 days only?)
I think I know the one you mean and if so, the last I read was social services/family courts had agreed that the father was not to have any contact any longer.