Life seems to be full of ups and downs doesn't it?
For many weeks I have been sitting on the news that my older daughter is pregnant with her first child at the age of 39. The decision to have a baby was made after many years of marriage and reversed a previous decision NOT to have children. The pregnancy has been marred by two major bleeds and in fact my daughter has bled on and off since a couple of weeks into the pregnancy, so it was impossible to become excited about the baby and only my husband and I knew about it. Finally the bleeding stopped nearly a fortnight ago and my daughter has just had her 20 week scan that shows the baby is developing normally and it's a girl. Now the cat is out of the bag and the whole family are incredibly delighted and my younger daughter actually became slightly hysterical with joy!
That was a few days ago.
Today my mother received a letter from her consultant to say that her recent hospital tests indicate (amongst other things) the likelihood of renal cancer and she is to go in for more tests. The news isn't entirely unexpected, but still got me thinking that life is like that; a sort of roller coaster of ups and downs and if there were no 'downs' there would be no appreciation of the 'ups'.
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