Re: Dissapointed with this site leaving for good!!!

From: Colette (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Mon May 21 21:55:38 2001


At Mon, 21 May 2001, Helen Chalmers wrote: >Do ypu understand that i'm not the only one that feels this way about this site! I've spoken to people that used to come on this site and no longer do because they too were ignored when they posted! And i'm alot different than most people here i'll tell it like it is thats me if you don't like it ohh well!! I'm only human i had an awful day and now that i have your undivid attention
>Dear Colette:
>
>If you are asking Richard for an apology, then I think you should be
>asking me for one too, but I don't believe I owe you one, you owe us one
>for dedicating our time and energy in trying to help others in pain, to
>help relieve their suffering and to help them not feel alone with this
>disease and to only be called a click. We all had difference in
>opinions here, and of course, that is because we are all individuals and
>have different views. Some begged you to come back as they felt perhaps
>we slighted you, and others like myself, felt we did the best that we
>could under all the circumstances; that being the pain we are in, the
>hurt that we are feeling too, the loneliness that we feel in there not
>being a cure for this disease, the crying that we cry at night for help
>too!!
>
>--
>Helen Chalmers
>
>At Fri, 18 May 2001, Hchalm@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In response to Collette's e-mail. I know myself that I have tried to write
>>Collette privately in trying to answer some of her questions when she came on
>>board, only to have her e-mail returned because of her coming on board as
>>anonymous (person wishing to keep their e-mail private). I think that makes
>>some of us leary, when someone will not give out their e-mail address and
>>their e-mail address reads "anonymous," and you cannot contact them
>>privately. I know myself after writing a very long detailed e-mail to her,
>>was upset to only have it returned. So, perhaps a lot of us have tried to
>>contact Collete, as I did, only to have her e-mails returned. If one wishes
>>to fit in, perhaps they need to give an e-mail address that they can be
>>contacted at. I know myself that I can get up to 10 private e-mails per day
>>at times, and that certainly makes me feel that I fit in.
>>
>>It just doesn't ever seem that we can make everyone happy. I know that a lot
>>of us give endless hours to the board in answering e-mails. I know that I
>>should be sleeping now, but find this is the a time I can come to the board
>>in peace and quiet (while the children are asleep), I do feel that most of
>>us always welcome a new member. If you look back through the archives, it
>>seems that I see a lot of welcomes here. People do have to understand that
>>we ourselves are in pain, and there are days that we cannot answer every
>>single e-mail, but I do think we make an effort to welcome every new member
>>to the board.
>>
>>Just venting a little myself here; I suppose, to let others know that we are
>>volunteering our time here out of kindness, selflessness, love, respect, not
>>wanting to see others suffer, as we have suffered ourselves and are still
>>suffering, or make mistakes, as we have made (and will not make them again
>>because of this site), then get e-mails that say we are only a click and
>>won't let others fit in.
>>
>>In Friendship, kindness, love, respect, selflessness....
>>
>>Helen Chalmers
>
>--
>Helen Chalmers
>

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