If she's gone more than a week it's because she's in rehab.
After she was wallduded over the earwig kerfunkle, she began to drink heavily.
In a drunken stupor, she fell and shattered a hind leg, dragging herself like a nightcrawler to get help.
She subsequently became addicted to painkillers, in addition to her alcoholism, using the broken leg as an excuse.
DUmmy cali Gage is a bitter, hateful, lonely old woman.