I had tea this morning with a young woman living with cancer. She is palliative. I tried to say the right things, but there is not a lot of common ground....she wishes she was me, and I am afraid of being her. It is such a difficult thing she is going through and I cannot fix it. Nothing I can say will make it better.
As my dear friend, B, (a fellow survivor) says, "All we can do is be brave enough to just be with her in her suffering, tolerating our own layers of discomfort, and bear witness."
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