08/04/2014
How can I be a friend to a friend who’s sick?
Letty Pogrebin in her book, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick, gives the following advice:
For more advice on how to be a friend to a friend who’s sick, read Letty Pogrebin’s book, How to be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick.
About the author: Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved; how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs; and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help and even simply talk to them. Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. Her advice is always infused with sensitivity, warmth and humor. It is embedded in candid stories from her own and others’ journeys, and their sometimes imperfect interactions with well-meaning friends. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick is an invaluable guidebook for anyone hoping to raise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.
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