I have a long standing friend, an ex colleague I worked with for many years, we have met up over the years , together with another ex colleague friend, regularly for lunches, trips out etc. Just after our last meeting we received an email from her saying she had been diagnosed with a nasty form of cancer and was starting various treatments - radiotherapy, chemo etc. For a while we have kept in touch with chatty upbeat emails about how her treatment was going , but with lots of everyday chat as well. She said she wasn’t able to face the world yet, but would let us know when she felt up for lunching. Then last week we received an email from her husband saying she was in hospital with an infection. Reading between the lines it sounded worrying. The next day we got an email again from her husband, saying she could have no further treatment and had been moved to a local hospice and sent her love. I emailed straight back saying how sad I was and could he let me know if it would be ok to visit, but I would totally understand if she just wanted the family there ( she has 2 AC who have young families). I have had no reply as yet. Do you think we ( our mutual friend and me) should just wait for an email or just go to the hospice and ask the staff to ask the family if we could see her? The hospice is very close by so not a long journey. We would understand if she is too unwell or the family say no. What would you do? Should we just wait for an email, or try to visit our friend for probably the last time?
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