Not exactly euphoric, but almost a sense of relief that the call from the hospital can't come - it's the weekend, so NO waiting around and jumping each time the phone goes off - a kind of restless quiet - can you understand that?
Friends have been very kind... one especially, who is very level headed and I love her loads, has put my mind at rest about my 'son'. I owe SO much to those two people (her and her dear hubby, who was just as kind & understanding this first week of the nasty cancer news) words can't express - not mine anyway: SO -
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~Frances Ward Weller
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen
