Don't know whether this is the right topic, but here goes.
Over the past few weeks I have recently made a good friend through doing a course together, she is in a wheelchair and this never bothered me as she is such a bright and lovely person and we always have a coffee together a couple fo times a week, well, I went round to her house this afternoon for a coffee away from other course members so we could chat, conversation turned round to her illness, for some reason I thought it was MS, how wrong could I be.
It turns out that she has had a brain tumour for the last 8 years, she has lost 90% of use in her legs and is now losing her sight, the tumour is now inoperable and she and her husband are hoping now that it edoesn't start growing again.
What has sluffened me most of all is that fact that when she went into hospital the first time for a couple of months, friends stopped visiting her and now she doesn't have any friends visit at home either, why do people have to be like this?
She is bright, funny and intelligent, but doesn't know how long she has left and not many people to share her time with as her hubby works long hours, I'm sat here dwelling now on how lucky I am.
Sorry the thread is too long, just needed to vent.