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Sorry about your friend.
for yourself try some bed rest and ibuprofen.
as for the ex .... some break ups are acrimonious
and as for talking down cancer, someone in my family, [ full of doctors but not the speaker ] said , I dont know why you're in a state about ca colon, my friend madge down the road you know the cleaner says no one ever dies from that ....
o god and I had been given a mortality at 5 y of fifty per cent....
You should give support where and when you can.
When George Carman QC - very important and very rich lawyer told his wife he had terminal ca prostate, she commented: 'you have taken everything'. His gambling has dragged them both into near bankruptcy at one point or two....