As the hours passed and still no email on recovery I watched as the dollars disappeared , my voting power went ever downward and my followers started to decrease in numbers. My surfer girl icon got changed for a cat of the hackers choosing and contaminated posts were continuously being added to my blog. The only plus point was that my steem power could not be easily disappeared. I watched in agony as the hacker proceed to first attempt to power down my steem and then seemingly give up and cancel the power down. At the end of the day I still had not heard from steemit recovery.
I was gutted!
By the next morning I felt entitled to ask how much longer this was likely to take without seeming like a nag. I knew other accounts had been stolen along with mine and that I might have to be patient. So I got into steem.chat and spoke with the steemabuse volunteers hoping for some reassuring news. As I was pressing for contact to a higher power from whom to beg a quick recovery, thankfully @drakos told me to contact @andrarchy for immediate help with stolen account recovery.
Within minutes of me contacting @andrarchy the email arrived and my account was recovered.