Do Tell: How did you choose your SW User Name?

It’s a great nammm 😊 @Fungirlmmm

@Noble :) thank you

@Fungirlmmm I’ll never forget the day we met. You had that juicy fruit avatar and I wondered what the hell I was getting myself into. Lol. Somehow I knew we were going to be great friends right away. February 1997.

@Fungirlmmm you mean like Hotmail id?

WTH - The nineties??? @HeavenBesideYou @Fungirlmmm

@HeavenBesideYou one of the best days of my life. You had the patchwork heart and we started talking about family and life. We soon moved off the site and into the real world. I'm so glad I have you in my real life. Love you very much my friend.

@Noble Yep. I joined EP in February 1997 and Fun was my first friend there.

@Fungirlmmm I love you too and honestly don’t know how I would have gotten through it all without you.

‘97 🙄 @HeavenBesideYou

😳 wow!! I didn't know there was an EP until June 2014! @HeavenBesideYou @Fungirlmmm

@Noble She and I have been friends in real life since 1997. I invited her to come here. You can thank me with candy lol

@HeavenBesideYou Same here. All the highs and lows. Sickness and health. We are bonded for life.

Ahhhh, now I’m following along; thank you! 😊 @Fungirlmmm

@Vivaci Yes she followed me on my Blog and other forums. I was one of the first 200 folks on EP when it went public 2006ish

@Fungirlmmm You learn something everyday. I had no idea EP was around for that long, and that you were practically a founding member(!) wow! And that’s an incredible friendship too. Hi @HeavenBesideYou !

Thanks @Noble for doing this post; it is super interesting... and a ‘Nobel’ post indeed.

@CCMorgan Yes HBY came to the support site because I invited her. When I started it was a very different place. We cared about one another and we didnt talk down about people

@CCMorgan EP began as a support site for families of persons with MS and then they enlarged their target audience to be all terminal chronic illnesses. Then 2006ish they went mainstream and public.

@Fungirlmmm That’s what it should be all about, always... but it’s a tough place, this anonymous and cruel world. That time line floored me... I can only imagine with everything you’ve had in your life. HBY has either seen or heard it all, I’m sure... wow!

@Fungirlmmm Unreal, I never knew that about EP.
I’m happy to learn so much in one night! I just hope my brain could hold it all 🙄

@CCMorgan She has been my friend for a long long time.i have watched her kids grow up and be very successful. I have been there when she met her father and her half siblings for the first time. I have been there for her through her divorce. She has been there for me through my illness. She has watched my heartbreak over the loss of my son. She has helped me through relationship break ups and the loss of my beloved pet, my cherished uncle. She has been there when I was taken out of the life of my favorite person and she was there years later when we were reunited. We have shared furry friend adoptions and new home purchases, vacations, and a bond that will last a lifetime.

Yay!!! This is the most positive thing I’ve read all day. And there has been some good stuff today! @Fungirlmmm

@CCMorgan EP was way different in the beginning and I logged out sometime in 2010 and never logged back in. Fun told me about SW and said I should check it out when the site first started and here I am.

@Noble I debated changing my name when I joined SW, but Fun said I should keep it. I’m glad I did.

All that and so much more. You are a true friend and I’m still not convinced you aren’t an angel in disguise. A very, very naughty disguise. Lol. @Fungirlmmm

@HeavenBesideYou What's my theme song you guys have me because of my empathy thing. Do you remember?

@Fungirlmmm Of course I do. I gave it to you. Black Crowes “She talks to Angels”

@HeavenBesideYou I still think of y'all when I hear it.