Illness prevents you from doing a lot of things now.

Your best friend, Bradley, worries about you while your husband, Nathaniel, thinks your illness is your fault. Or at least, you are not actively trying to get better. He thinks you are wallowing in self pity and being lazy, when it is actually hard for you to do things you used to find easy.

Bradley is your friend. He is self employed as a wildlife guide. He takes groups of school kids on camping trips in various locations.

He has become increasingly concerned about your health as you have been going downhill. He often comes back from a camp and tried to catch up with you the same night even though he is exhausted. He brings you food and worries about you. But he worries even more about how your husband treats you.

Your illness can be whatever you want. A terminal diagnosis or something easily curable, or perhaps a mental health condition.

Some suggestions:

• Diabetes

• Gut problems

• Going blind

• Mute

• Injury that takes months to heal (broken bone)

• Depression/anxiety

• Something undiagnosed

• A rare disease

• Schizophrenia

• Borderline Personality Disorder

• Bipolar

• Cancer

• Been in an accident

• Something else

Will you stick by Zac and make him realise you’re doing your best? Will you run to Bradley when your husband goes too far? Will you need both of them for whatever your illness brings next?