What you need when you have cancer

Cancer friends who have become friend friends. Angela and Joanna came for lunch today - I forgot to take their photo! We met two and a half years ago at a creative writing class at the Maggie's centre at the Western General in Edinburgh. We talk about everything, including cancer and everything associated with it. With other cancer people, you can talk about things like death and dying and fear, and chemo and surgery, and you know you don't have to hold back for the other person's sake.

As Angela said today, something special happens when we three get together.