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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a person with a severe chronic illness.  It's hard for a healthy person to understand how it feels to be chronically ill.  For many of us, our biggest fear is being a burden to our friends and loved ones.  I have an almost irrational fear of asking anyone for help.  In my mind, I don't want to waste any favors now because I think I will need them later on (like there is a limit on kindness or something).

Anyway, I would just accept the gift from your friend.  She is trying to show you that she cares and appreciates all your help and kindness.  Don't overthink it.  Just accept it and know that you are a good person because that's the bottom line.[/quote]

This is great advice. You are making too much of this, try to focus on being compassionate toward your friend and realizing that illness can strain all of someone's emotional resources, in all sorts of ways. Maybe she didn't have the mental energy to think of an original gift, or maybe she thought you had given her a different gift and got confused, or maybe she is worried about being a burden and not wanting to be too indebted to anyone, whatever it is- she is in a tough place right now. Focus on keeping that in mind, and not trying to take a sick person's generosity as a slight.[/quote]

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