Our Whitby........

[gemgirl]

I rarely have the opportunity to read through many of the different forums here on PS, but I happened to click on the "Who''s Who" section today and found that Tim, Whitby''s husband, posted something new in her Who''s Who.

Please click on this link to read Tim''s post at the end-
https://www.pricescope.com/forum/who-s-who/whitby-the-dog-lover-t109415-90.htmlhttps://www.pricescope.com/forum/who-s-who/whitby-the-dog-lover-t109415-90.html

I know I''m not alone in saying she will definitely be missed! She was a one of a kind diamond who brought incredible sparkle and light to our Board.

Best of luck to you dear Kareyn! We''ll be thinking of you!

 

[Upgradable]

I, too, am very sad she has made the decision to step away from PS. She was an amazing addition to our community!

 

[monarch64]

It''s too bad. Kareyn, I really enjoyed you, thank you for being so awesome during your time as a PS member.

 

[Gailey]

Wow, that was sort of final. Was it something we said? I think Whitby is an awesome part of this community. I was waiting for her to come home so I could ask her a whole bunch of questions. Oh well .....

God Bless Whitby.

 

[gemgirl]

Date: 8/22/2009 6:12:12 PM
Author: Gailey
Wow, that was sort of final. Was it something we said? I think Whitby is an awesome part of this community. I was waiting for her to come home so I could ask her a whole bunch of questions. Oh well .....

God Bless Whitby.

So was I........

 

[lulu]

Absolutely baffled.

 

[lyra]

This is sad and shocking I guess. I don''t understand it much.

 

[loriken214]

I miss her already......

Lori

 

[Italiahaircolor]

I can understand how people need to come and go from time to time...but Whitby was such a warm light, and she will be missed.

However, on a side note, I''m wondering what made her choose this?

 

[D&T]

I was just thinking about her the other day too

. I sure hope she comes back. If you are reading this Whitby! I sure do miss you already, and enjoy reading your posts. You will be missed, but whatever it is that you are doing! have a great journey in it and good luck with your endeavors sweetie

 

[Gailey]

Date: 8/22/2009 7:16:54 PM
Author: loriken214
I miss her already......

Lori

Gosh I bet you will Lori. Hugs

 

[Prana]

I haven''t been around here as long as some others, but I always enjoyed Whitby''s posts and advice, and I will surely miss her presence. Best of luck to you, Whitby, and hope to see you around here again some day!

And as a side note, I hope this is a happy departure, and that there is nothing serious going on!

 

[packrat]

Oh no! Whitby always made me smile and she had such a way of putting things..I hope she decides to come back!

 

[LaurenThePartier]

Date: 8/22/2009 7:31:47 PM
Author: girlface
I haven''t been around here as long as some others, but I always enjoyed Whitby''s posts and advice, and I will surely miss her presence. Best of luck to you, Whitby, and hope to see you around here again some day!

And as a side note, I hope this is a happy departure, and that there is nothing serious going on!

Kareyn definitely is a light to all of us and will be dearly missed.

I don''t know all of the details, but I do know that Kareyn enjoyed her time on PS. I know she has her reasons, but like many of us that have just left PS for a bit of time, it''s almost always to pursue something more in our real lives. I wish her the best.

 

[jewelerman]

Whitby come back!We promise to be good!

 

[Elegant]

It was interesting that she chose to have her husband write a final goodbye and make the announcement and not do it herself?

 

[ruff_hi]

oh gees! ladies i''m sorry!

whitby here, using tim''s account. mine has been closed, so i no longer have access to it, nor do i want to re-open it (having just closed it!)

i''m still in australia and don''t have a lot of access to a computer, which is why tim posted in who''s who. no sinister motive - just lack of availability and time. but so many people had asked for photos, i wanted to respond asap, so asked tim to do so.

i was about to head out (and still am - another family get-together!), but have received a few emails alerting me to this thread, so thought it best to respond immediately to let you all know i''m FINE. i''ll post once more, using this ID, when i have a chance (later on today or tomorrow), then it''s ''good night from me'' - for reasons which i''m hoping to be able to share with you adequately when i post one last time.

i hate long goodbyes, and have had so much experience of them over recent years. so i wanted to make this short and sweet and ''slip out the back door'', so to speak. i obviously got this wrong, i apologize, and will explain later.

i hope you''re all enjoying your weekend!

whitby-stealing-tim''s-id!

 

[packrat]

Well hello there incognito Whitby! I wish you all the best and will miss you a LOT!

 

[D&T]

Date: 8/23/2009 12:06:48 AM
Author: packrat
Well hello there incognito Whitby! I wish you all the best and will miss you a LOT!

yep yep what Packrat said...

Packrat! I''m just following you around here tonight...lol

 

[packrat]

Date: 8/23/2009 12:12:58 AM
Author: D&T

Date: 8/23/2009 12:06:48 AM

Author: packrat

Well hello there incognito Whitby! I wish you all the best and will miss you a LOT!

yep yep what Packrat said...


Packrat! I''m just following you around here tonight...lol

Bwahaha AHHH help me! Reet Reet Reet! (ok, lame Psycho noise there) hehe

Whitby, if you like, you could wear these if you''d like to come back and visit.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Glad you checked in, Whitby, and I do think some kind of closure will be helpful here. You''ll really be missed...

 

[risingsun]

[double post]

 

[risingsun]

Date: 8/23/2009 12:41:05 AM
Author: diamondseeker2006
Glad you checked in, Whitby, and I do think some kind of closure will be helpful here. You'll really be missed...

I agree with diamondseeker regarding some closure. We will miss you, dear Whitby

 

[gwendolyn]

Glad you checked in, Kareyn sweetheart. My heart sank when I read that you were going. Although I understand you have real-life goals to pursue and wish you nothing but the best, you have clearly misjudged how much of an impact you have made on us here. Your kind heart, experience and often unique perspective on the world has been treasured by more than just myself, and we will all miss you very much, but will be happy to know that you are chasing after what makes you happiest and most fulfilled.

Take care of yourself, my friend, and come back and let us know of your adventures if the time is ever right for that again.

 

[Gailey]

Date: 8/23/2009 5:18:45 AM
Author: gwendolyn
Glad you checked in, Kareyn sweetheart. My heart sank when I read that you were going. Although I understand you have real-life goals to pursue and wish you nothing but the best, you have clearly misjudged how much of an impact you have made on us here. Your kind heart, experience and often unique perspective on the world has been treasured by more than just myself, and we will all miss you very much, but will be happy to know that you are chasing after what makes you happiest and most fulfilled.

Take care of yourself, my friend, and come back and let us know of your adventures if the time is ever right for that again.

Gwendolyn

This is such a lovely post and sums up so beautifully what many of us feel. More than anything else I just want to hear that her health is OK, because I know she has had some problems.

to you Gwen for writing this and

for Whitby for ....

....Well, just for being Whitby

XX

 

[LostSapphire]

Bye Whitby

I''ll miss your writing: always clear, concise, helpful and straight to the point.

LS

 

[bebe]

Whitby - everytime I saw your avatar, I saw a woman full of life, laughter and spirit. PS is a richer place because of your posts.
Thank you for all you gave. I hope you''ll stop by and check on us from time to time. You will be missed.

 

[ruff_hi]

Hallo all – Whitby here. ☺

In Australia we have a saying – ‘more comebacks than Nellie Melba’, an opera singer from the turn of the 19th century known for her retirements… and returns. I’m starting to feel a tad like her but can assure you that this will be my final post under this, or any other id for the foreseeable future. It seems to me that there’s 2 schools of thought on PS about leaving; firstly – do it quickly and silently, or secondly, state you’re leaving and say goodbye. I’m more of the first camp. But it didn’t occur to me that my abrupt departure might be a cause of distress or irritation for some people, so this post is by way of cleaning up any misconceptions or offence. For those who would prefer a somewhat quicker departure – I apologize; I’m caught between a rock and a hard place here. Rest assured that this public farewell is not comfortable for me!

So – to ‘why?’

I’d have to say that it’s a finely balanced combination of me…and all of you! As you’ve probably noticed from my considerable post-load over the last 7-8 months, I don’t do things half heartedly! And I post like a writer/psychologist; wordy! But I’m also wordy because I truly cared.

If you lost your job and posted on PriceScope, I cared. When your SO went for a job interview, I prayed for you and them. If you were getting married – I hoped for fine weather, then looked at your photos over the coming months. If you received a new piece of jewelry and it made you happy – I smiled too. I watched as you looked for that perfect sapphire, searched for examples of the ideal ring setting, cried over the death of your dog, was proud of you when you rescued that cat, impressed when you intervened with those bullies, and most of all rooted for you through every doctor’s appointment, medical test, and blood work result you had. I have truly been your friend and have been proud to be a member of your community.

But I also worried. When your husband yelled at you, I was angry on your behalf. When he hit you, I wanted to do something. When you were hurt, I wished to hold your hand. And when the panic rose in your lives, I felt it in mine. Empathy is a two edged sword.

As you may have read in the ‘family, home and health’ forum, I have recently (within the last 12 months) been diagnosed with Crohn’s. I have a few complications from this also which have been popping up hard and fast over the last 6 months, and which have been difficult to juggle with the other responsibilities in my life. I also have a book, The Terror of Prism Fading, which has been doing increasingly and surprisingly well recently, and am half way through a second book which I hope will do even better and which is taking up more and more of my time. I am being asked/invited to do more and more promotional work for my book/s – not least of which is speaking in schools to children about dispute resolution, using my first book as an example of a group of children who are thrust into a situation where they must work together, but where they really don’t get along. As an ex developmental psychologist who specialized in dispute resolution, it’s been my great honor to use my book to teach kids alternatives to bullying, aggression, or using their fists when things don’t go their way. I feel that this is my life’s contribution to our world, and the book series I’m writing is written with the hope of educating children in this angry, war-hungry world on how to find peace with a fellow man who may not always be easy or similar to them in any way. But this is while caring for 3 large (gorgeous!) show dogs, writing book 2, doing all sorts of real life and on-line work for the series, chasing my husband round the country-side as he travels perpetually for business, being emotionally and physically torn between the wonderful USA and the country of my birth, beautiful Australia, and struggling somewhat with a new physical state of being which involves doctors, hospitals, and all sorts of pills and provisos.

To keep all my respective balls in the air, while living with Crohn’s, it’s essential that I live with as little stress as possible, and stay focused and relaxed. So it’s become necessary for me to streamline my life. For example, I’m writing this from Australia at 2.13am, which is the only free time I could find using a computer which is not my own! This is not the ideal way forward for a person with Crohn’s.

So in an effort to retain the energy and focus I have, I’ve decided to say farewell to a number of my pursuits and interests, of which PriceScope is one, and achieve the goals which I deem to be the calling on my life. I asked for my account to be completely closed so I wouldn’t be lured back by my own commitment to you all, and as a form of externally imposed self discipline! For security purposes, I also don’t like having open accounts sitting around, so asked for it to be closed. This will be my last post for at least the foreseeable future, and I can always re-open my ‘whitby_2773’ account should things settle down in the years ahead. I do, however, anticipate an absence of years rather than months, so felt at least a line from Tim in my WW thread was in order.

So – farewells…

To those who appreciated me – thank you! To those I annoyed – I apologize. To the PS Crohn’s sisterhood – God bless you all, you’ll be in my prayers. To Catmom, LostSapphire and Loriken – you are an inspiration and an example to me of what it means to ‘rise above’ when your body doesn’t necessarily do what you want it to! I intend to try to emulate you going forward. To Diamond_Dana – I came and left PriceScope loving your ring the best. To those who found me outside of PS and remain my friends – a significant and personal thank you. To Tuckins1 who led me to Angelo – well, you changed my life, and hopefully his too. Thank you. To atroop – yes. Definitely a NY get-together before Christmas– and I always keep my word. And to my friend Uppy – for the love of God, girl – PLEASE try to stay outta trouble!

And to all the wonderful women and men of PriceScope, mods included, and specifically to gemgirl who started this thread….

I thank you. God bless you all going forward.

I’ve now done everything I said to myself I wouldn’t do when I asked Tim to post my message on my WW thread, and have lingered, chatting! So in the words of the lovely Mrs Hudson_Hawk….

This is whitby. Over and out.

 

[Tuckins1]

Wow. That seems kind of sudden... I wonder what made her make that decision?

I always enjoyed reading her posts. You are missed, Whitby!

ETA- Just saw Whitby's last post...

I totally understand now. I know a few people with Crohns and stress of any kind can tear them up. Best wishes to you Whitby!!

 

[VRBeauty]

Whitby -- I hope you''ll linger for just a day or two, if only as an anonymous reader, so we can say our fare-thee-wells.

I''ve appreciated your humor and your thoughtful, generous, down-to-earth posts. Thank you!

I wish you all the best with your books (how exciting!) and health, and of course with Tim and the dogs.