DU member ms.smiler is no longer with us.
Her given name was Mary Ann, she was a small business owner in Penn.
She posted often about the mortgage fraud, was very knowledgeable, and had emailed me a lot of valuable info.on the subject.
One of her happys was suing illegal robocall people, she used the Consumer Protection Act against them, and invariably won!
Very very smart lady. Wickedly funny, too.
She was a very proud grandmother for the first time, and sent pictures over the months of her grandbaby.
Last Sept. one of my emails to her was returned with a message from her son that she had suffered a very very serious stroke,
he was quite shaken and prospects did not look good for her.
I have not heard from the family since.
I do miss her a lot.
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Lucky for me, I was able to make it to the bathroom somehow before I peed my britches...I normally would have slept for 3 more hours..
That's about how long it took for my arm & leg to come back (at the hospital)... for my arm & leg to come back.. I may not have ever even known I had had a stroke 
when the stroke happened , and in some cases it could cause bleeding.. It scared me, even though I was miffed that they might be withholding something that I might have needed..
The whole episode was frightening though, because when the use of my left side came back it left again twice more before it came back & stayed....
It was like someone was flipping a switch..and I just hoped that the last flip was my way 
...were BRILLIANT!!!! 
Funny how the person on the losing side of the argument has been banned!!!
Every week or so a new death thread
Sounds like a good time to spread this one around:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026418496
Peace, safe passage, and high flight to you, ms.smiler.
I didn't know her, but I read through some of her postings from a thread linked here. She was smart as a whip, and any person who sued those vile robocall people would have been a hero of mine.
but had such a lovely victory giggle about it.
She was the only other person besides me that I knew would do this.
even when I was overwhelmed by all the mortgage details, she would carry on, poking at the beasts.
She had 2 lawsuits going with her mortgage bank.
I guess they are moot now. 
I wish I'd have had the good fortune to have at least met her on here.
after one of my friends lost her home illegally. She was a fountain of information and so willing to share it.
I hadn't seen her for a while but assumed she was just busy.
This is such sad news!
for ms.smiler
She really was a fountain of information on the subject, and she was very feisty, so I'm not surprised to learn that she went after robo callers. Wish I had had a chance to talk to her about that also.
I miss her and feel so sad to hear she is no longer with us!
Peace to her family.
and maybe you'll hear from Mary Ann soon. Thanks for letting us know about her, it's so sad when some of us simply drop quietly away and DUers are only left to wonder (or worse, few of us even notice that they're missing). I'm still worrying about where Uncle Joe got to.
Peace for Mary Ann and a hug for you
Here are a few useful links, in honor of the tenacious ms.smiler. I think I might file a complaint this week on a particularly obnoxious robo-caller, in memory of Mary Ann:
https://www.donotcall.gov/
https://www.fcc.gov/guides/robocalls
Telephone Consumer Protection Act
http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf
I don't remember seeing her nickname, but that doesn't mean she wasn't important here.
Sadly, a lot of the old familiar names are no longer here.
I try to limit my time here more now because of it.
At times like this, I always remember what the Wizard said to the Tin Man --
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.
I hope that she knew how you, and many others at DU felt about her, and loved her.
Peace.
I survived my stroke, but lots of good people aren't that lucky.
