Dear Eric: My closest friend of many years has recently revealed the sad news that she has terminal cancer. She is one of those rare humans that most people have an instant connection to, and then they become fast friends.

In addition to being close friends, we were colleagues who often worked closely together, traveled together, and shared many common friends, work friends, vendors, and clients. Several decades’ worth of projects and likely in the hundreds of people within that group.

There is a very small group (less than five people) of us who she has shared the news with. She has expressed her preference to not share details with our greater community until she can get her bearings with diagnosis and treatment; however, she will eventually want us to tell friends her story and status

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