Down to earth with a...

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Well, girls safely back at school, normal hours resumed at work. (Bombshell dropped there today, but not Blogworthy). Usual playground catching up, "how was your summer" etc. etc. Then I found out that one of the Mums from school has had the worst possible summer holiday. Husband thought that he had phoned all her friends to let them know, then realised as he saw me in the playground this morning that he had forgotten to let me know...

She has been quite ill for the last few months, underwent emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder, still had problems, but was starting to make a good recovery. Then, in the first week of the summer holidays, she was diagnosed as having Cervical Cancer. Worse, they had to delay performing the hysterectomy until eight weeks had passed since her previous op.

She has another appointment tomorrow, to tell her what further treatment she may or may not need. The job she was due to start this week has been delayed until at least October, possibly Christmas, depending on whether she has to have Chemo or not.

Not a lot else to say really, except that it really brings home to me how lucky I am. Life really isn't fair sometimes, is it?