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When friendship dynamics shift during surgical recovery

I'm recovering from cancer surgery and my closest friends keep asking how they can help but I don't know what I need and they don't know what to offer. We all want to get back to normal but nothing feels normal and we're all dancing around how different everything is now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Recovery changes the giver-receiver balance in ways that leave everyone uncertain.

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