healing energy for my co-worker Hanna, please
She is a young woman in her thirties. She disappeared from work yesterday. I was the first to notice she was missing. I thought she'd asked permission to leave the floor to take a call yesterday, but now I remember another co-worker saying she could see her cellphone still on top of her desk. It may be that she'd asked to take a break after a particularly difficult call. Anyway, she never returned; left behind her jacket, other personal things, computer locked but still running, etc.
She has been having a rough go of it. She is divorced, has been homeless, has lost custody of her 2 children to her mother, with whom she doesn't get along. She is trying to start over and re-build her life. She lives in a rooming house where she can walk to work and wherever, because she hasn't got a car. She has been saving to rebuild, buying a little refrigerator, a hotplate, etc. for her room.
She tends to seem moody, sometimes not speaking to anybody and other times opening up, and sometimes we all joke around. I know she's been depressed lately about lack of direction and purpose. She said she'd like to focus her life on her children, but having lost custody that avenue has been blocked for her.
She was very withdrawn yesterday before she disappeared, so I suspected something was wrong from the get-go. 
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I noticed she wasn't at her desk at about 5:20 pm. Thought she was on break. Then around 6 or 6:30, realized she hadn't returned. I started asking around at that point. By 7pm, our manager was asking about her. It turned out he didn't have any of our phone numbers available. I offered to go to her rooming house, but he turned me down.
I'm concerned because it's a crappy job, and sometimes people really push our buttons and are just plain rude and mean. I have talked with her about it a few times before, to not take it personally, to remember that this is just temporary. It pays $5/hour more than her previous job and even though there's not much opportunity for advancement here, it is a notch on her resume.
I don't want her to lose this job because then her life will really spiral back down. It was a good chance for her to start over.
Acted like nothing had happened. I didn't want to pry and she can be pretty standoffish, so I didn't ask what had happened. I am probably close to her mother's age, so she probably didn't feel comfortable talking to me about it, maybe for fear of judgemental or scolding or something.
She was suddenly being super-friendly with co-worker to my right, so when I had a moment I asked her if she knew what had happened.
Apparently on Friday she had the Mexican trots and then felt nauseous, so walked home, threw up and crawled into bed and fell asleep.
Our manager did find her number and phone her at home to check up on her over the weekend.
Thank you for asking. 
I'm glad she's OK.
