First,
Thanks to everyone for the condolences...it is greatly appreciated by me and means a lot that everyone here cares so much for somebody they have never met. Sorry that this thread turned into some infighting amongst members here.
To clarify a few things, I didn't speak publicly about the death. Its not that I was trying to remain private...I just didn't see a need to post it. However, there were some members here that were friends with my sister. I contacted those members in private to inform them of what had happened...both when she was ill in the hospital and then after she had passed. Not a lot of people here knew my sister so I just contacted her friends in private instead of making it a big deal in front of people who didn't know her.
While I was out of town for everything, I tried to keep in touch with some poeple to let them know what was going on, etc. I had very limited access to the internet where I was and could only get on-line for a few minutes at a time.
To clarify what Steve's comment was about since he was the first to post publicly in this thread about it. While I was away, Steve started a thread that was evidently against me. I didn't see the thread so I can't say what it was about. Somewhere in that thread, one of my friends (and who was a friend of my sister) posted for Steve to back off from attacking me because I had just lost my sister, and that I was out of town and couldn't defend myself. As far as I know, this was the only time that something had been posted publicly about it.
Because of the nature of that thread and Steve's intent to harm me, a moderator removed the thread. This is why some people here knew what was going on (outside of people who I contacted to inform them of her passing). After the thread was removed, only people who had seen the thread would have known what had happened.
That is why some people here know while others do not. I do appreciate, however, those that stood up for me in that thread while I was absent.
Again, I appreciate everyones thoughts and prayers while I was away. My sister meant a lot to me and I was close to her (as many members here know). A lot of AD'ers didn't know her or that she was my sister...while some people here were somewhat close to her as well. I'm not the only one that suffered a loss, because some members here lost a good friend and they should be remembered in prayers as well.
I notice some of members's posts here over loss of your family member because I can't find your post where you mention about your family member.
