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Oct. 18th, 2016 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdreamsMy best friend up in Liverpool has been diagnosed with a Grade 3 Astrocytoma.I've been trying to do some research and this is not good. It's an incurable brain tumour and the longest I can find anyone surviving diagnosis is twelve years - but that seems to be very unusual. Two to five years appears to be more 'normal'.
She doesn't want to know the results, so one of her two daughters is acting as the conduit for all the information. I don't know if this is a good idea but on balance, it probably is, because in this instance, being armed with all the information would probably not help approaching this with a positive frame of mind, and that is going to be essential for surviving for any length of time, I think.
I want to see her but she didn't want me to take a trip specially up to Liverpool so I'll have to wait for November, when I am going up to Shrewsbury again. I can't make it an urgent trip because she doesn't want to know what's going on.
She's three weeks younger than me. We've been friends since we were seven, when she moved in across the road from our house. She's the closest thing I had to a sister growing up; we lived in each other's pockets except when we argued and fell out.
I feel a bit sick.
Fuck. Just fuck.
She doesn't want to know the results, so one of her two daughters is acting as the conduit for all the information. I don't know if this is a good idea but on balance, it probably is, because in this instance, being armed with all the information would probably not help approaching this with a positive frame of mind, and that is going to be essential for surviving for any length of time, I think.
I want to see her but she didn't want me to take a trip specially up to Liverpool so I'll have to wait for November, when I am going up to Shrewsbury again. I can't make it an urgent trip because she doesn't want to know what's going on.
She's three weeks younger than me. We've been friends since we were seven, when she moved in across the road from our house. She's the closest thing I had to a sister growing up; we lived in each other's pockets except when we argued and fell out.
I feel a bit sick.
Fuck. Just fuck.