Notification situation has been worse than I thought!

Everyone knows how the notifications have been on the fritz on and off for a while now. I mentioned to a friend of mine one day here that I was worried that some of my friends here might think I was rude if they had responded to my response and perhaps asked a question pertaining to it..no notifications...no answer back Well..today I ran across something that bothered me even more than that. I got a PM from someone about a response and so I went to my "responded" tab so I could track it down and respond there. I happened upon a Best Response that I hadn't even realized I got! I like to thank the person rewarding and add a little something more to the discussion if I can if they are kind enough to chose my response. WELL...after further investigation, I realized that this was not the only one I had missed and felt terrible about the delayed response back to them. One of them was as belated as 2 months! What would you do if you had been awarded a best response over 2 months ago and just happened across it? Do you usually add something more to the discussion in which you are awarded or leave it be? Are these notification issues stressing you out too?