My sympathies. My mother is losing her best friend to cancer, and has lost multiple close friends in the last few years. I'm currently living with a family where they are dealing with another family member in the late stages of brain cancer. Take the experience in whatever positive way you can, that's all I've been able to do through my challenges. As I wake up every morning for the sake of helping others, I can only give that advice for conditions beyond our immediate control. Condolences..
Thanks. It was good to spend time talking with him about everything except cancer. To avoid the topic we had all kinds of conversations about things we never would have talked about otherwise! It's odd that when the light at the end is visible and coming rapidly up on us... that we only choose that time to have these other conversations...