What should I do about this friendship?

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My friend has decided to end our friendship over what she perceives as a very personal slight against her. I was due to visit her for a weekend and my child got sick the night before I was going (v&d bug) and I didn’t feel I could leave him anymore. I’m a single mum so he was due to stay with grandparents. He also wanted me to stay with him while sick.
my friend has now taken this very personally that I “didn’t make the effort” to visit her and that she wasn’t important enough for me to not cancel the trip. We see each other regularly, at least a few times a year. She has now totally cut me off and I have not heard from her in over a month. I feel very upset about this and have reached out a few times to no avail.
what would you do?

She sounds selfish and like a crap friend tbh. You will be better off without someone like that in your life that can cut you off because you chose your sick kid over her

People without kids don’t really understand this stuff because they haven’t lived it.
She should, however, trust her friends judgement and respect that you wouldn’t just cancel for a spurious reason.
If you really want to salvage the friendship you could reach out one more time to explain the situation (but do NOT apologise) and say you’d hate to lose the friendship over this.
But really I’m not sure I’d bother.

Does not sound like a friend at all to be honest.
Kids always come first for me.

I had to cancel a christmas afternoon tea once as child was ill, my friend asked for it to be boxed up and brought me a mini bottle of prosecco as well.
Thats the sort of people you want in your life.

Your friend is VU, your child was ill with D&V, so he needed you there, and it would have been unfair to leave an ill child with his GPs when he could pass it on to them too, nobody wants to have that. You did the right thing. Your child comes first.

. Do you make a roughly equal effort to visit or is it always her coming to you and you've cancelled on a rare reciprocal trip? I know it's specific but it's happened with a friend of mine and I have to say the final straw may come and not seem entirely proportionate in isolation but there would be a lot more to it.

If you're genuinely not flakey and she has been hitherto a good close friend, I would check in. It is an overreaction but maybe something shitty is happening. People are piling on against her but it might be hard to climb down from an outburst. I would give her a chance. I agree staying with your son was absolutely the right thing to do and she has overreacted but maybe there's something going on. Don't grovel or anything, people are quick to advise cutting folk off on here but I don't know whether they practice it in real life.