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{weblog_name} - When a Friend is Ill
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You’ve just received the kind of phone call we all dread.  A close friend has been diagnosed with a serious illness.  You’re shocked and shaken.  Maybe you’re thinking, “It can’t be,” or “What’s going to happen now?”  As upset as you feel, you are even more concerned for your friend. When someone we’re close to develops a serious illness, we may not know what to say, or we fear we will say the wrong thing.  There is also a natural tendency to want to protect ourselves from the knowledge that “this could happen to me, too.” When a dear one is ill, we are all afraid. Brushes with mortality can be intimidating.  These fears, however, rob a friend of our loving support at the time when it is most needed.  When someone feels abandoned by health and good fortune,… read more