Difficult dealing with kind of thing, isn't it? I recently found out that one of my closest friends (since college) thought that for the past 30+ years I've been LYING about my health problems. He was always too "polite" to say it directly to my face, and I didn't know until recently he even thought this way.

He only realized the truth when last year he stayed with me for a couple weeks (he's from Japan). He was shocked at the amount of prescription drugs I was on, and confessed something like, "You really ARE sick, aren't you? I just thought you were a weak person."

What does a person do with something like that? If I wasn't a Christian, man, ....