Yesterday I was on my computer when I received an IM from a woman claiming to be from tc. She wrote that she saw my posts and we started to IM each other. She said she lost one of her triplets and was still carrying twins who were suffering from ttts. She spoke about how her stomach was filling with so much water it was splitting open and but she said she was at home due to poor insurance. She said she was 30 weeks. Then she started writing very scary things about her symptoms, sayint these things were happening at that moment. She wrote that at that moment her stomach was splitting open and that she was bleeding. But she kept ON TYPING???? I didn't know what to do, I asked her if she needed me to call 911 and she said no her sister was on her way but she was typing that she was typing that she was crying and typing, OH GOD, GOD HELP ME!!! Then I received a text with JKK typed????
I started thinking is she for real and if she is what do I do and if she isn't what the hell? After she typed JKK I figured it was Just kidding ? I found it hard to believe if she was in so much pain, how could she be typing??? But then I don't know. I was really worried. But I don't know for sure? What do you think and do think she is with us? and if she is, has anyone heard anything? She logged off after that???

Raquel
Mom to triplet angels: Sophia, Steven Jr. & Xavier b/d 25w4d (11/26/06, & Sweet baby Joseph (11/14/07-11/14/07)
Eliana Grace-God has answered
Born 4/03/09

Oh Raquel --

You would think that having learned life's saddest "lesson" the universe would give us a break and render us untouchable to sickos, but that is not the case. In the last 4+ years I have read stories of losses that sounded eerily similar to mine (so similar that a quick search found them to be word-for-word from one of my posts), people who say they've lost children who never have, people saying they are pregnant who are not, people claiming to be pregnant with triplets whom they releasing for adoption who end up being men in a basement who don't have enough going for them to ever have a girlfriend much less to be a woman and the pending mother of triplets. There are people who feed off of our stories to make them their own, people who mock our tributes to our children, people who have some sick fascination to which people I love (if for no reason other than I understand to some degree the loss they are suffering) fall victim.

Sadly, my defenses to all of this have me talking to few people who may or may not benefit from my experience and/or perspective on losing children. I question everyone -- although not outloud. I have more than once messaged moderators of this board and others I belong to to warn them about impostors, etc. TC is actually (in that way) mostly safe -- at least when it comes to posting -- Tiffany and Jeff are REALLY responsive to these things. But that protection only sits on the board. It does not protect you on IMing or Emails (I am currently receiving no fewer than 5 spam emails a day from someone who got my TC email address from the site -- see, even I have made some wrong calls as far as people with whom I chose to correspond).

I am so sorry that you experienced this deranged side of humanity. I know that it is of little comfort, but we've all (pretty much all, anyway) been hit by this junk. I'm sorry.

Thoughts of peace to you.

Steff

^West Rogers^, ^Keaton Edward^, ^Rebecca Joy^ 1/6/04



Missing their sister ^Maria Jose^ 4/7/04-5/10/04

Thank you so much for the response. I am not computer savvy at all. I am really stunned. Who ever it was knew what to say to sound legit.I'm glad that it "finally" dawned on me and I wasn't too upset by it, just amazed that people can be so deranged. Thanks again for the support.

Raquel
Mom to triplet angels: Sophia, Steven Jr. & Xavier b/d 25w4d (11/26/06, & Sweet baby Joseph (11/14/07-11/14/07)
Eliana Grace-God has answered
Born 4/03/09