As my family, friends, and readers of this blog know, my partner has been, and remains, ill with symptoms of a persistent infectious disease caused by a spirochete transmitted by a tick bite. It’s a disease that can happen when living in an area populated by deer.
My friends in the boot world and blogosphere have heard about this long-term difficult situation in which I am engaged.
It can be sad and depressing when one is experiencing a life event and he only hears silence. There are times when silence is deafening.
Most people have trouble dealing with these matters, because they want to show concern, but do not know how to do it. Also, they are human. Most people do not want to think about bad things. To some, ignorance is bliss. To the one affected, ignorance presents questions like, “are my friends fair-weather friends only, and disappear when it rains?”
Here are some suggestions on what to say (or do) when you don’t know what to say….
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