More Friends All Over The World

Last year, I talked about making friends all over the world, friends whose lives have been affected by cancer in one way or another.

I’ve also talked about wanting to become friends with Fran Drescher.

Recently, I introduced my blog readers to Kat West, who emailed me out of the blue via my contact page wanting to meet.

On January 21, I took the Edmonds ferry over to Kingston. We hugged the minute we met. It wasn’t awkward one single bit. Cancer has a strange way of bringing people close together.

We sat down to eat breakfast together at the Oak Table Cafe there in Kingston. “Before we eat, I wanted to give you this small present,” I told Kat. “I didn’t wrap it very well, because I thought of it right before I had to zip out the door to meet you.”

She removed the wrapping paper. Inside a Stash peppermint tea box, I had placed three tea bags and a roll of Mentos. She looked up at me.

“That’s what I used for the nausea caused by chemotherapy. You’ve had one treatment already, right?”

She nodded.

“I hope you don’t have the nausea like I did, but if you do, hopefully, this will help.” All this talk about nausea and chemotherapy gave me shivers up and down my spine. It had been years since I had completed my chemo regimen, but it still gave me the willies just thinking about it.

While we sat at the table getting to know one another, Kat kept swiping at her hair. Crap, her hair is already falling out. It hasn’t even been two weeks yet since she started her chemotherapy. I remember those days. All too vividly.

After we ate our eggs and pancakes, she asked if I wanted to walk down the road to the quilt shop.

“Well, quilting and I don’t get along very well, but I don’t mind looking,” I responded.

All in all, we had a great day.

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