The Bad News
Christmas often brings news of friends that we haven't seen for a long time. This year, we had a selection.
Most importantly, the dreadful news that a guy who was once one of our closest friends, has cancer. In the '70's, I shared a flat with Ian's girlfriend Caro, now his wife. Although they were a few years older than us, my girlfriend and I became close friends with both of them. When Moonface & I married, Caro was at our wedding whilst very pregnant with their first child.
We have kept in touch over the years, but more infrequently of late. They have an existence which many would regard as the English ideal: he is a country doctor, and she is a midwife and nurse. They have a lovely house with an acre of so of land in a rural part of Gloucestershire, and three well-adjusted adult children.
We called Caro the other day, to arrange a visit. She could only talk with difficulty, through tears. Ian had just been diagnosed as suffering from colon cancer with metastases in his liver, and he is continually on morphine to dull his pain.
He's probably going to die. It's dreadful.
Most importantly, the dreadful news that a guy who was once one of our closest friends, has cancer. In the '70's, I shared a flat with Ian's girlfriend Caro, now his wife. Although they were a few years older than us, my girlfriend and I became close friends with both of them. When Moonface & I married, Caro was at our wedding whilst very pregnant with their first child.
We have kept in touch over the years, but more infrequently of late. They have an existence which many would regard as the English ideal: he is a country doctor, and she is a midwife and nurse. They have a lovely house with an acre of so of land in a rural part of Gloucestershire, and three well-adjusted adult children.
We called Caro the other day, to arrange a visit. She could only talk with difficulty, through tears. Ian had just been diagnosed as suffering from colon cancer with metastases in his liver, and he is continually on morphine to dull his pain.
He's probably going to die. It's dreadful.
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