I 65F went on a trip with my longtime best friend, also 65F. We have been friends since we were 14 years old; a very long time and have gone on many trips. The last trip we went on was a 6 hour road trip. It did not go well at all, and I fell and broke my feet in the Airbnb. At first, I was so thankful to be with someone I knew so well and would help me through this scary time. While I was in the hospital I got Covid, shingles, and they said they saw a spot on my lung! Because of all that I was very lonely, and scared. She stopped coming to see me. She never brought me my clothes in the hospital or even anything to do in the hospital. I payed for a place for her to stay a few nights and it soon looked like I was going to need surgery on my ankle and both feet.

She, in this time has apparently come down with a headache, I told her to get some Medicine and rest, maybe see a dr. She just shut down on me and shut me out. She wanted me to pay for someone to come pick her up. She had access to my car to drive back 6 hours but did not feel comfortable driving by her self "in a strange car". She owns the same car. I offered to get a her a bus ticket, she didn't like that idea. She apparently never asked her boyfriend of 5 years to come get her.

She ended up driving my car back anyway, leaving me there all alone for about a month. As soon as she got home she unfriended me and blocked me on everything. Because we have been friends for so long, my kids and family were friends with her on FB and saw the post she put up about being at a certain age and not needing selfish and fake friendships. My oldest daughter is a bit of a loose cannon and went off on her, beginning a back and forth between the two of them where she called me a liar and selfish.

She hasn't reached out to me since except to threaten a lawsuit, to sue for one of the nights in a hotel costing her $400. I planned to pay her back but now after all of this I am taking my time doing so. 

 I have felt like I lost a family member. I do not cry anymore about it. Now after 8 months I'm all healed up and out of my wheel chair! She wouldn't know that. I'm better off without her but it feels good to get this story out. We work for the same company, so our boss asked her how I'm doing, because I was out of work for a couple months. She said "I don't know, we are not friends anymore." She feels like she did everything for me in that time when in reality all she did was bring me a pair of sweat pants. I was in one pair of underwear until I had my friends and family back home order them to me. I'm thankful for my oldest daughter and son in law coming to get me after all my surgery and healing.