All of us have had experience with losing someone. Someone who isn't where they are supposed to be.
I had such an experience this week and by last evening we were frantic.
I had emailed my son and daughter about my medical situation. I do this when I want them to get exactly the same message.
My son replied in a couple of hours. Nothing from my daughter. Next day , nothing from my daughter but more from son and daughter- in- law. So I started emailing and messaging my daughter but no reply.
Third day no reply from daughter. I began to get very worried and stressed. My daughter lives in Chicago. I live in Alberta, Canada which is a long way from Chicago.
So last night we were super frantic. We could imagine all kinds of dreadful things that could have happened. About 9:30 last night when I was checking messenger after many times that day, I noticed that she was on line. Relief!
I was able to talk to her. Since her husband was off this week they more or less went off line so she had never seen all my emails. They both like gardening so had been outside. Of course, she was surprised that we were that worried and made many apologies.
Usually we think of children being lost. In this case a person wasn't really lost. We just couldn't make contact.
We did have a good sleep last night.