I just looked at their profile today, they’ve been gone for months. One of the last things I remember them commenting was that they were about to lose Medicaid, meaning they were going to lose access to the methadone clinic. With what street opiates are nowadays, a financial detox at a methadone clinic is a death sentence. And her leaving behind the mutual_aid comm just doesn’t make sense and seems very out of character for her. I worry something happened to her, specifically worried about an OD. Also hate asking this, but does anybody know their legal name or have them on off site social media? Might be worth looking into obituaries in Portland.
I know she shared her other socials on here a couple of times, but I don’t remember them unfortunately snd and I didn’t want to follow her because it just felt creepy and invasive seeing a Hexbear’s social media. The PayPal she has listed on her final mutual aid post is @BobbySemczuk my idea is for someone to send a small amount of money, like a dollar, and just ask about Rachel. Pretty sure that’s not her account and it’s one of her street friends’, but it’s the only way I can think of to check on her
Also lol that is in fact my PayPal account; that is my legal name, unfortunately (I hated my real name even before I decided I was trans).
Yeah, someone told me in PMs eventually, but I know at one point you used other people’s Cashapp so I just applied that situation to it lol
She had to remake her account a couple of times due to losing access. I’m unsure if @loitering@hexbear.net is her most recent one or not. Actually it is @shoplifting@hexbear.net
Yeah that’s a very normal thing for them, I just figured that they’d still be posting on this comm. I will say some people PM’d me some info about them and their activities off site. There’s now a pretty good chance she’s alive. Once I found that out I fell asleep, I hadn’t slept in quite a while
I know a lot of people on here wouldn’t send her money so maybe that’s why she stopped posting here, but I also know a lot of people that do help them out. I’m poor and usually looking for help here myself, so I just send $5 whenever I get a particularly good paycheck with a note saying I was thinking about them. Full transparency, I don’t do this often and it’s been quite a while since I’ve even had $5 to spare since moving out of sober living. I just know sometimes someone sending a small amount and just recognizing the struggle helps out a lot emotionally. I know one particular poster on here that’ll send like $2 and some changes every once and a while, or they’ll give me one of those visa gift cards that’s already been used quite a bit. It always means so much to me because I know that just like when I send $5 to someone on here, that’s really all they can help with.
Back when I was with my ex and really heavy in my drinking, a user on here would send me like $5 every week for coffee and we’d have a text chat. I’d always be sober for that chat, and I wasn’t sober very often at this point in my life. So I try to pay forward what I can, even if my help is more emotional than anything.
It’s that, but also bc I’ve lost access to all my money accounts except PayPal, which I can barely use because I can’t get the debit card.
Need an address to ship to? I have some aquaitances in Beaverton that’d probably be willing to do it. Well, they were there last time I talked to them, it’s been a while though. I know they didn’t leave the Portland area though
That isn’t a problem (I have an address in Sellwood). PayPal actively won’t let me get the debit card for some fucking reason.
Ah I gotcha, that’s unfortunate. Just figured I’d offer to try and be helpful, I don’t fully know your situation or if the things I do know are out of date.
thank you for caringOf course, I love the people on this site a lot. There are many people on here I’d consider best friends. There’s one user from further back in the site’s history I’m pretty close with. They go through long periods of not responding or getting on here. They haven’t logged into Signal since March. I miss them a lot, so I send them a message on Signal every once and a while for when they log back in. When they log back in eventually, they’ll know I never forgot about them
Also, lol this confirms that y’all know it’s me and I don’t have to hide my true identity any longer smoke bomb WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lol so I made @shoplifting after thinking I’d lost access to this one. I like that username better honestly.
Also yeah I’ve been caught up in other interests and haven’t really touched this site in a hot minute.
I gotcha! Great hearing from you friend! Sorry if any of this felt invasive, but I mean we’ve both had our issues with fentanyl. If you hadn’t seen you in 2 months, I feel like you’d feel similarly
I didn’t know if you still had Medicaid or not and once I realized how long it’d been since I saw you post I started panicking a little bit.
Bump, hope she’s ok and touching grass or sth
Someone sent me more private info on them, they sent me a Facebook profile I would have never found on my own. Last post is from a week ago. So they’re probably okay
I distinctly recall seeing a post in a general mega about her making a new account, so that’d be the reason for the inactivity on the known account. Nothing else to add. Hope she’s okay.
I appreciate you chiming in with this, many people on here reached out with more private information about her (off-site socials really) and I can say there’s a pretty good chance she’s alive. Not gonna go into detail because I already feel weird digging through another Hexbear’s personal stuff, but someone sent me a message with information that let me fall asleep last night
Happy I could help and that you could get some sleep
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