Dear Judy,
I lost my longtime live-in friend a year ago, almost exactly. He had pancreatic cancer and that was that.
In the beginning, friends would call all the time, asking me over to their place or dropping in for a visit. I felt loved, even though I had lost the person I loved most in the world.
Then [...]
Dear Judy,
I have stomach cancer, and am not expected to continue much longer. I have a good friend who keeps texting me: every bit of crap (he calls it “information” or “the latest”) there is on stomach cancer.
Like if I read it, the disease will go away.
Right now I don’t want to read [...]
Dear Judy
My best friend is dying of cancer. It has been a very very long ordeal.
She chooses to suffer quietly alone with her husband. I have been her only outside contact during her entire suffering. Barbara takes phone calls only from me.
Friends seem to be irate that they cannot speak with her so [...]
Dear Judy,
My girlfriend has been in an out of the hospital for over 2 years (she has a brain tumor that shrinks, and then grows back). I work for a living, but I am also obviously at her side a good deal, and when I’m not — when I’m at our apartment, trying to catch [...]
Dear Judy,
I don’t want to go into details (too depressing) but I am seriously ill. Very seriously. Ever since I revealed the news to a number of friends, they’ve been avoiding me. Not all my friends, but a good number. It’s like I’m contagious — which I am not.
Don’t these friends realize I need them [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009