How Do People Battle Cancer Without Friends?

Yesterday I was having a "yucky" day painwise and fatiguewise, and a visit to my surgeon indicated that I will have to have another small corrective surgery (cosmetic, not cancer-related) after radiation in the spring. I came home with a migraine and took my Imitrex and phenergan to sleep off the headache. While I was resting, a member of our FBF at church delivered a basket. When I awoke, Katie brought it into my room - what a treat! The class had gone together and assembled the best gift basket imaginable! Comfy socks, magazines, a beautiful mug, an assortment of teas, a variety of trail mixes, products from Bath and Body Works and Mary Kay, a book, lotions, fingernail polishes, a framed scripture, and to top it all off - an ipod Shuffle loaded with Christian music to listen to during my chemos and the days following when I can't move. I was overwhelmed and so grateful to have friends who are praying and showing me how much they care that I recover.
This was the second basket this week - earlier in the week I received a basket of inspirational books from the Dave Dravecky Outreach of Hope organization courtesy of a dear friend of mine from high school, Patti Thornton, who has just recently completed all her treatments and surgeries for breast cancer.
I think that having a good group of Christian friends is so important at a time like this. I am learning along the way how to minister to others in the future by the way I am being ministered to now by so many.
How DO people do this without friends?