Letty Cottin Pogrebin - How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick (2013)

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Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose — other losses come later.

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It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody — doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

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If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

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Illness is friendship's proving ground, the uncharted territory where one's actions may be the least sure-footed but also the most indelible.

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Illness tests old friendships, gives rise to new ones, changes the dynamics of a relationship, causes a shift in the power balance, a reversal of roles, and assorted weird behaviors.

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