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

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • Aradino [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    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.

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      5·
      12 days ago

      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 right now