So, I'm going to Vegas tomorrow with four of my girlfriends. I'll be "rooming" with my college roommate who I haven't seen in a while. Why, you ask? Because she has cancer and she hasn't wanted me to see her. As in, "don't come see me, I don't want you to see me like this."
She's flying out tonight and is going to have a home health agency come visit her in her hotel room tomorrow to do her dialysis and IVs and such. She says that by the time I fly out and get all checked in and settled, she'll be done with her "medical stuff".
She was always my strong, funny, brave, wonderful friend (and she still is), so I don't know exactly how it's going to be seeing her like this. She's a wife and mother to two sweet children. She's a brilliant writer and is getting her master's right now (or was...) The three others who are going haven't met her before (they are my friends from other parts of life) but they're being supportive of everything.
I just hope this isn't the last time I have with her.
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