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Seattle was great, and the weather was perfect!! We were aptly armed with a list of veggie restaurant addresses and a GPS unit in our rental car, so we had a great time! DH is going back to Seattle this weekend for work, and I've already requested that he bring some yummy vegan donuts back home with him. Hope you are still doing well

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Hey Shell it's good to see you! You look wonderful and I am so glad things are going well for you. I was just thinking the other day how much I miss some of the "oldies" here. I check in often but don't find time to post like I use to. I guess those of us that are stable and are doing well don't need the support like we use to. I am glad to see you check in and congrats on the new place too!

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I think your so right Angela.... once you get stable... you just don't "hang out" on the boards so much...looking for help...but I wish I still had more time to share. I miss some many people here and reading about what is going on....but man, there are so many newER posters....I'm lost! LOL

Glad to see you too!! See ya at the next check in!

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Why not post an "all call" for all "your friends" - a catch up reunion???? When you share a history with people, I know it's important to keep in touch.
I'm sorry there are so many of us "newcomers" and that so many of us just discovered this website and need help. There are days when people are lighthearted, but then there are days when people are desperate and don't know where to turn. If these things should not be posted under the "Living Room" - then please re-direct us. I've looked at all the headings and many times it's general questions - out of desperation - not diet or fitness or research or yoga or hypnosis related.
I think there's room for both - people who are stable and doing well and those just starting the nightmare and seeking help.
I believe everything we walk through and survive, is meant to help someone else at some time in our lives... But, that's just me.

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No need to be sorry. There is no right or wrong it is just different. Things change over time and different people need different things.

I think it is a natural course of the boards for people to drift away. Most of us feel very close to the friends we make here because each one of us knows exactly what others are going through, unlike those who do not have IBS.

It was not my intention to make you feel bad about anything that you post here or take away from the support that you or anyone else needs. I was just expressing my feelings of missing the way things used to be when I was on the boards a lot more and I knew most of the people who were posting.

I have certainly had many moments of feeling despair over IBS issues and other things in my life. It is very comforting to be able to come to friends who stand with open arms to give their caring and support. When I said I missed the way The Living Room used to be I really miss the feeling of comfort that comes from knowing others on the boards.

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Yeah, hold the phones....put on the breaks... neither Janey nor I were saying we have a problem with the boards or ANYONE on there... a few years back...there was just a "new wave" of newER posters...and that included Janey and I... it's kind of like the pregnancy boards... you get attached and "grow with" those that are in the same term you are in....you share things about your appointment, your plans for the nursery, your showers, your baby names....then you have your baby...post pics.... etc etc etc.... you come back for first time mother questions.... answer a few posts when your awake when baby starts sleeping thur the night...then before you know it....it's a few days before you post another comment to another new mothers baby pics or ask a new question, then it turns into weeks, then months, you post a "hello" and a few new pics... then before you know it.....a year has past and your baby is almost a year old... you go back to the board and WOW...guess who is also there??? Those that were posting several times a day with you a year ago...also "checking in"... does that make sense??? It's not that we don't need or not like being here...it's just that our questions got answered, we figured out what did and did not work... for us. At some point it really is a good thing when you don't need or want or have to post all the time....but if you do there is nothing wrong with that either... we all progress at different rates. Example: Janey probably knows WAY more about me, my IBS, my family, my strange sense of humor, my gym stories, my weight loss stories, Vegas, etc etc then she really cares to know...but because we "grew together" at the same time we relate with each other and also miss hearing the scoop about each other. But you on the other hand only know about me from the time that you joined the board...which by this time I was not around as much...so unless you went back and read my posted from 4 years ago...you don't know all that much about me. I'm so rambling on...someone stop me...!! We did not mean to ruffle any feathers here..... you keep posting please and we will keep checking in..... K?

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