Jill, really, that would be awesome! We should found a charity whose purpose is bring single people to treatment appointments in style, siblinghood and mirth!
For the selfish friends, it's really very very common, a friend of mine who's a socialite with a bazillion connections was in the same plight recently and totally no-one acted on their previous offer for help (ok, I did, and it was quite fun as well, but I was the only one, and the help in question was really trivial, fetching a pair of goggles from a hospital night pharmacy). I mean, even the extremely well connected have these problems. Maybe people are really selfish.
Sheena, you're right, I should take time off. But as a consultant, a long time off means the boot, and anyway my contract ends in Sept (I think) and I plan to not look for another one for a few months. I'll see how it goes. Today I was bored out of my skull, I am beginning to care little: I don't like half of the clique there and I am beginning to lack the passion to defend my technical choices. Boss wants me to stay but I feel the mule of the situation and, if I can allow myself a little sexist rant, I am a bit fed up of cleaning up after a bunch of guys with more ego than coding sense. D'uh. On the other hand, I know that in another contract it would be the same if not worse. Oh, let me recuperate, and then next time I will sell myself so dear, oh, so dear...
