Steffi

Just close off your email and private messages for awhile. But please continue posting here. I have to do that periodically as well.

Your real girl and that can be hard to take at times for some.

Everyone seems to think they can get to know others on the net but that to me is fallacy.

Advice in person is cheap and the ones who pm what really are strangers offering to help are fooling themselves into believing they can be of help.

I too have done it a couple of times and one of those times was you.

I think then it was to ask you the same thing as I m doing now, stay around and if you want to post do so and I for sure will read it and ponder your thoughts for the insight that at 75 years jof age I am still developing.

To h with you needing us we need you lol

LOL she said but she means that she is trying to keep it light and not really laughing as it is not a laughing matter. Hard work to learn how to write on the net eh what

There she goes again, eh what, shades of Coronation Street she is mimicking.

Try and I will too eh Steffi. We need to understand each other here and you can be the leading act.

Stefi, I've been looking on this forum for a couple of weeks> I joined today. This is my 2nd post. I need you, Stefi. Please stay, and don't pay attention to anything negative. I'm so sorry for whatever that was negative that was said. I've read alot of your posts; and I like you lots. Gretta

Steff.We need you.We need your bravery]].We need your humour.We need your sense of proportion.We need you to keep us from sinking in despair.One person's opinion is not the opinion of us all. Please open the Parkinson's Disease Society website and press forum I think you will be surprised and pleased by what you will find under Looking the right way through the telescope and Different but both excellent.At least I hope you will be pleased.

The comments were written on Parkinson's Disease website forum before you received the unpleasant e mail.

This should really be a private message to you Steff, but it is what it is for now. I don't know what's going on here, I'm in shock to be honest. I saw you on-line earlier today and was going to drop you a line but I had to take my aunt to the doctor and decided I would write you when I returned. When I read this thread I just couldn't believe it. Please don't let anyone on this forum or any place else undermine you. You are the juice that keeps this place interesting as far as I'm concerned. Yes, there are very many scientific people who post here and they know a whole lot more than I. I enjoy reading the knowledge they impart. However, you are the reason I check this place out every day. It's your attitude, your whole approach to life, your demeanor on this board that makes me visit every day. Some people for whatever reason are just plain miserable and can be jealous even from a distance. The other evening I PM'd you and I haven't had a chance to send another yet. I hope you will get a chance to read it when I send it. For now, I will repeat a part of what I wrote to you privately. When I saw your new picture, I thought how lovely you look. When I saw the devastation of the flood to your home, I was so saddened for you. I said in my PM to you that while your home is in such an upheaval right now, I had to say it is beautiful, reminding me of those beautiful English estates you see in the movies. I also wrote that you have the 3 B's: Beauty, Brains & Breeding.
I may not have met you in person, but your words have reached me across the pond and touched my heart. You, Steffi, have been very kind to me even while going through this nightmare happening to you and your family at this moment. I don't need more than this to call you a friend. And, you have helped me since talking to you. You and also Therese have helped keep me sane.
I apologize for going on like this but I have a need to express myself here. If you leave and all we have is some of the nasty threads that have been posted lately, then this is a sorry bunch.
Kindly, Maureen

Steffi!

Dear Steffi

as you can see....you are much loved here!

My offer of help stands...

rather than disrupt the flow of things any further here tho, I am going to just ask that everyone be VERY sensitive in how they post here, so that we dont have another eruption.

You have my word that I am going to investigate this thoroughly and that it is already under discussion with the rest of the admin/mod team.


Cheri

Thank you Chemar. Some of us who are a bit more opinionated (cough cough) and "do go on sometimes" (quote from KC Tower..lol) don't want to be suspected of off board activities of this nature. Of course I think it should be handled privately, but handled.

Steffi - you seem too strong a person to let someone run you off. If you can face what you just went through in the flooding of your personal possessions, you can shrug your way through this. Let it roll....there are more important reasons to be here.

paula

There should be no doubt in Steffi's mind...or heart...how the people, here, feel about her...how much she would be missed...for all her very beautiful attributes...caring, supportive, giving, and oh, so humorous. I think it's important for Steffi to understand that people, here, need her as well as she needs to be here. To allow...enable ONE individual to deter her from being in a place where she is so needed...where she so needs to be...is unthinkable. So many of you, here, have validated Steffi and I believe, in time, she will be "back"...that she will NOT deprive you of her very loving and kind heart...that would be totally unlike her. I believe, too, that the love and support that you have shown her will ease the hurt...and she will be here with us.

Therese

I hope Steffi reads these posts but i would like to add one more thing. What has happened and I don't know what that is exactly but it is Steffi's business and hers alone. It I assume something came to her through private message then is that not private. I have been told and many others that that is the way to handle things over and over again

So until Steffi asks for help it is not the responsibility of management to inquire what was in a private post to anyone.

This was just to say to her that whatever it was if she can see beyond it to look at the rest of us then please don't stop posting.

But private messages should be respected as private and handled accordingly. If not then our very lives are under scrutiny and who here could approach anyone when they feel there could be consequences from doing so.

Communicating is hard and to bring a third party into it can be more harmfull.

Let Steffi handle it.