I'm guessing that it's lost, Michael.
Here's a useful tip: when you want to reply to a message, open up a word doc or an email draft and copy/paste the message you're responding to into the draft. You can also copy/paste parts of other messages for easy reference.
Then tap in your reply and edit until it's ready to send. Copy your reply and then paste it into the reply space of this message board. Once you've sent it, check that it now appears as a new message.
You can then delete your draft, or choose to keep it temporarily while your thread has new messages added.
Jean C