When you are diagnosed with cancer, strange things happen to other people. Cancer will probably change you, but it also changes people around you, people you thought you knew.
People behave in unexpected ways.
Some you thought were friends disappear. Others hang around. And of those who keep coming around, you will be glad to see some, and less glad to see others. You will find out who your friends are, as the saying goes. As if that' s a good thing.