I am so lucky to have friends (and I have yet to share my diagnosis with the majority) that just embraced and supported me from the get go with little fuss.
Soups and salads, sacred food from a temple, boxes of persimmons and pomelos and pomegranates, rides to/from hospitals or dropping Max off here or there...
And I am still fully functioning, for now just spending endless hours in and out of the hospital with numerous tests and on the phone with insurance.
No outward visible signs of any trouble in paradise, but the circle of embrace really invaluable.