I had a mc in April, and it clashed with the collapse of a workplace friendship that had been slowly disintegrating. Basically, the week I had the mc, she signed herself off for 2 months on medical grounds. A month before that, we'd had a tiff because she was messing around with some complicated work things I was co-ordinating. Prima donna behaviour - I thought she was attention-seeking. When my mc started she'd been ignoring me for a month. I said some pretty ripe things on her answer phone the morning of my mc - her answer was to say by email (cc.'ed to a male colleague), 'I'm sorry you are unwell, I had a migraine'. 4 months after this mess, she came back to work and dropped me a note saying, 'I hope you are fully recovered. I've been away too.' Cheers - I'd had to take on some of her work, so yes, I'd noticed. I replied I didn't want to see her, and now (another 3 months on) regret doing that. I'm tempted to make the effort to see her, but it would only be to save me embarrassment should I bump into her at work. Do you think it's possible/advisable? There are a couple of colleagues who could (perhaps) act as intermediaries.