Posted great memories of Avi

[mom2avigail]

On Blog....
www.rememberingavi.blogspot.com

Lindsay

[stephaniesmommy]

Lindsay,
I went to your blog-Avi reminds me of Stephanie in some of their favorites. Stephanie LOVED pink and had a pink room and she also loved hot cheetos. I could have written some of your entries myself. When you mentioned all the things Avi will never be able to experience- i've been through that list myself. It's such a helpless thing. We can't do anything about what has happened.
Thank goodness for some of the numb and disbelief in the beginning .

(((Lindsay)))) and everyone- I am just so sorry any of us are here for this reason. Today feels extra sad to me . My heart is remembering today.

Cindy

[Sarah]

I went to go look and it's friends only. Add me blueeyedgirl10 @ gmail.com is my google blogger account.

[matt99]

pasting from different thread:

Lindsay took her blog down last night within minutes of a poster (not me) asking some questions. To summarize, those questions were these:

1) The photo of Avigail as a newborn actually comes from a stock photography site:

mirror-uk-rb1.gallery.hd.org/_c/b....1-DHD. jpg.html

(It seemed odd to call a file of your own child, "newborn baby close-up.")

2) Photos on her site which she claimed were taken on Avi's fifth birthday (which would have been 1/20/08, according to Lindsay's blog) contained embedded camera metadata that showed they were taken in early December, 2006.

3) Lindsay, a Jewish Studies transfer student at the University of Arizona (according to her bios), maintains a couple of other blogs about her school life, none of which ever mention a child, sick or healthy.

4) There were no posts on her site from any friends or family. Not a one. Only outsiders from these boards, made aware of her situation only through Lindsay's own frequent invitations. It seemed odd that no one who knows Lindsay personally would have left a note. It's not unthinkable, but odd.

None of these questions constitute definitive proof of anything, one way or the other. Lindsay way well be going through what she claims to be going through or perhaps she is channeling a loss of a different kind. Maybe the truth lies somewhere in the middle, meaning some parts of her story while others are not. But she immediately took her blog down after these issues were raised without comment. Perhaps she'll offer an explanation to make these hard questions disappear.

All her pages were saved and screen grabbed. I'm not sure if the university should be alerted so they can send someone to check on Lindsay's state. Perhaps you all have some insight.

Matt

p.s. Full disclosure: I joined this this morning to specifically respond to this query re Avigail. I feel almost guilty intruding on the sanctity of this board with a post like this, but felt that the situation warranted this update. As I said, it would be good to be wrong here, even though "good" in this case would mean that someone was grieving a loss. On the other hand, being right would be tragic and perverted.

[smileyriley]

Thank you Matt! It is good to be made aware of the possibilities. Especially because this board is so close. We reach out and even open ourselves up to all the heartache & pain that comes along with trying to help others having to go through what we did & in turn share our children too.

Thank You Again,
Christina

[matt99]

I'm not sure thanks are in order yet. The whole thing remains a mystery.

First off, all of the leg work on this was done by someone else, who wishes to remain anonymous. Any thanks should go to that individual.

Second, we still don't know what to make of this. If we all are wrong, then one would think that Lindsay would have a) responded immediately with some clarifications or b) responded on one of the many blogs like this one (The Nest, etc.) that she has been soliciting traffic from. But instead she simply took the blog down. We'd all like to be wrong on this whole thing but she's not helping.

If she's troubled by something other than the loss of a child, she still needs help of some kind. Should the university be notified? Her family in north Los Angeles? I don't know what the ethical responsibility is, quite frankly, short of alerting you all to some discrepancies in her story.

[smileyriley]

I don't know the right thing to do either. But we have seen this sort of thing a time or two. Sadly!

[sg moderator 3]

I have decided at this time to lock this post in the interest of seeing that these boards remain a place of support. We take risks whenever we post on the internet. People may or may not be who they appear to be.

Please do not reopen this subject. If you have further questions on why this post is being locked please feel free to pm me.

Thanks.