My kids have been sick as well. Both with chicken pox, and one with a flu lasting 1-2 weeks, the vomiting kind. Not fun at all.
On meeting this "friend". I think it's okay. maybe you could help him reconcile and give him advice from what you have learned here. I definitely would be cautious because you both are very vulnerable and anything can happen under all this stress and confusion. So the wise thing to do would NOT let anything beyond friendship happen, just as you said, "nothing more".
Sorry I haven't written back myself. I know how nice it is when you get a response.
Hope you had a nice Easter
Me 33 H 34 S9 S3 M 6 yrs (2gether 11 yrs) EA/PA 1/2006 DB 5/2006 H wants D 6/2006 H wants ME 8/2006 H "said" PA/EA over 8/2006 H erased OW off phone! 2/2007
"It is far better 2 choose humility & change oneself, than 2 wait in vain trying 2 chang someone else."