Who are your true friends??

 I personally have found the BC journey to be a very lonely one.  My immediate family have been fantastic.  Extended family (my brother & sisters etc) most friends have been distant. At first I thought, well, here is your chance to be an advocate.  Now, I might add, I always tried to make  people feel comfortable.  I tried to be open.  I have never been emotional about it.  All that being said, I do believe what that other lovelies have stated.  People don't know what to do or  say, so the easiest thing is for them is to avoid the person, or the subject. I think that its just human nature. Some will run towards you to comfort and others  will run the in the opposite direction.Even the bestie was distant, and only heard from her when I rang.  Never a phone cal or visit from her. I  went to see her recently when she injured herself, her first words to me were.  "Well, you don't look sick to me".  I had not seen her since diagnonis last November 2012.