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Just needing to confide as I am still in a lot of shock and very emotional.

My ex, who I still love very much, moved back to her home country 8 months ago and our relationship broke down around that time.

In the months since then we have stayed in touch (even though it’s been emotionally very painful for us both but we got through the worst of that and are still close).

She is 41 and has developed in the last 6 months or so symptoms that have just today been narrowed down to either ALS or Multifocal Motor Neuropathy.

I am struggling to wrap my head around it and I am so scared of what the future might bring. I keep trying to grapple with all of the possible scenarios and I just can’t process it all and more than anything I am so worried and heartbroken.

I’m just so scared.

If anyone reading this cares to pray for her or offer maybe any words of wisdom or prayers for all that’s ahead, that would mean the world to me.

I have a lovely old Bialetti moka express pot which I normally just rinse with water day to day after use.

Recently I had cause to give it a bit more of a thorough clean (just mild detergent and quite quickly). I did this a bit unthinkingly and didn’t realise until after that I should have used a vinegar or baking soda solution.

Since then, I find that when I screw the top and bottom compartments together, twisting the two components together has developed a subtle but unpleasantly dry/abrasive feeling and a resulting unpleasant squeak (again it’s very quiet, nothing outrageous). Just high pitched enough that it’s in that “nails on chalkboard” register of unpleasant sounds though.

I’m wondering if anyone has any experience of similar- would a tiny touch of olive oil or similar be a good fix?