I don't know if anyone remembers, but over a year ago, I had posted about my manager who was diagnosed with breast cancer and I was wondering about a quilt I could make for her.
I did make a simple one, blue squares on point (no pink at all!), which was delivered in person by another colleague (my manager is in a different state from me) who was traveling at the time. The quilt was extremely well received.
Anyway, about a month ago, she announced that she is now free of the cancer (after a double mastectomy, chemo, blah blah blah, weight gain from steroids, now she's young, but in full-blown menopause as a side effect of the chemo). I saw her for the first time recently and she looked good! Her hair had grown back a bit.
Giving her the quilt did not make things awkward at all, nor did it seem like I was trying to gain anything. I'm just happy the quilt was received in the same spirit that I made it in, and that it worked and she is now well!
-- Anita --