Few people warn you that illness changes your friendships. You expect the tiredness and the appointments. You do not expect the quiet rearranging of who stays close and who slips away.

In this conversation, Naomi is honest about both. She talks about the friend who learned how to sit with her on the bad days, and the ones who could not find a way to stay. We talk about the guilt of cancelling plans, the strange grief of friendships that simply faded, and how she slowly found people who understood without needing it all explained.

If you have felt lonelier in your illness than you thought you would, this one is for you. There is nothing to fix here, just two women being honest about something rarely said out loud.