PLEASE don't flame each other!!! It's the board software that is flakey sometimes! (was Re: Tired of seeing no new posts!!)

From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Fri Apr 12 17:43:11 2002


Someone mentioned awhile back that the software that manages the posts on the board was written by a volunteer as a gift to us. We didn't pay for it, and we can't expect perfection!

ejulian, I saw your post about ultram addiction appear, and I read it. A little while later I came back and there were 2 or 3 new post titles showing as unread, and the post right after your read "ultram addiction" was another post with the identical title that showed up in my browser as unread. I clicked on the new posts, including that 2nd "ultram addiction" one, because I know sometimes people sometimes post 2 different posts on a single topic (like if they think of something else to say after hitting "send" on the first one.) Your 2nd "ultram addiction" post was identical to the first. Then I read Robin's post, which included your post, and I was very startled -- I have read every post on this board since last August, and I never saw the quoted material before! So I went down the table of contents for the board, and now instead of 2 "ultram addiction" posts, there was 1 "ultram addiction" post followed immediately by your "Re: Tired of seeing no new posts!!" And the post was marked in my browser as read, although I never read this!

So now I'm wondering about all of the other times that posts appear twice in the table of contents -- I always assumed there was some glitch or another that caused people to send things twice, or caused a single posting to get entered twice in the posting database. But now I'm wondering how many of those cases were situations where the second posting was hiding another posting, and how many dozens of posts I have missed that way?

I have also seen all sorts of other weird things. Some posts come up centered rather than left justified. (Your "Re: Tired of seeing no new posts!!" message is that way on my browser.) Sometimes for days at a time I come in and all of the posts, read and unread, are marked as read.

So PLEASE!!! if you post something and no one replies, don't get your knickers in a twist thinking that people are rude and insensitive because they did not reply. It may very well be that some software glitch ate your message and no one actually saw it!

cathy :-)

At Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Robin wrote: >
>I really took affence to this post!!
>I am not sure what click you are talking about, but I don't think there
>is one. The reason some people have more posts than others is because
>they write more, not because of any click! I have not hear of anyone
>going to Germany for a hysterectomy, vaginal or other wise! Yes,
>sometimes we write to get sympathy from this "support group", but, we
>share what we are going through. It is tough not having any one that
>truely understands the pain and the frustration that the DAM_ adhesions
>cause!! We have NEVER judged anyone by the amount of time they have
>"suffered"!! Pain is Pain, whether you have had it for one day or one
>month, or 20 years! My first surgery for adhesions & the pain they
>caused was in 1985, with pain for almost a year before then from a
>C-section I had to have. I have NEVER WHINED to a Dr, either they
>beleive you or they don't. Either you get help, or you don't. I have
>been to every Dr that my insurance co will allow me to go to. There is
>not one that will do surgery on me. My personal Dr is very
>understanding about adhesions and the problems they cause, but can not
>operate, Most general practitioners don't do surgery. She has refered
>me to many, but most don't even think adhesions cause pain, if they
>think like that, they WILL NOT listen! The Drs in PA will do surgery,
>don't take most insurance & cost an arm & a leg. I, don't remember if
>you told anyone that you were having surgery or not. Usually if we are
>told, Many send thoughts & prayers. I am very sorry if that didn't
>happen for you. I am glad that you seem to have another support group,
>but many of us only have here. I feel this is primarily pointed at me,
>because I am trying to get to Germany and talk about to many.
>ROBIN
>At Fri, 12 Apr 2002, ejulian@attbi.com wrote:
>>
>>i know what you mean, it seems that there is a little click going on
>>here just like in high school. well for anyone who cares to read, had
>>surgery wednesday for laparoscopic assisted vaginal hyst. doctor did
>>use intercede barrier, and removed adhesions from previous surgery to
>>remove right ovary and tube. you don't have to go to germany to get
>>this operation done. if one takes the time and effort to research the
>>matter instead of trying just to get sympathy from those on this
>>"support group", one will find there are doctors in the USA who know and
>>do something about this. i hate to be so blunt, but i find that there
>>only a small minority of people who keep popping up on the message
>>boards. i guess i haven't been 'suffering' long enough for my name to
>>be part of the group. i will continue to do my own research and
>>continue to talk to my own support persons, but don't be fooled there is
>>hope here in the USA and if you really talk to your doctor instead of
>>whining to him, he will take notice and listen, course the sugestion of
>>legal action does help also.


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