On Monday I moaned about my nails being bitten away as the stress of being back at work increased. At the end of the same week I am left thinking that my nails are such a trivial matter that I am ashamed I even gave it consideration.
Life has a habit of giving us all a slap across the face from time to time. It’s has been such a week for me. The Pastor at our church and his wife, close friends, have had significantly more to worry about than nails.
I’ll not use names to maintain privacy so excuse me if this sound cumbersome.
The wife was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago, serious, life threatening cancer. This diagnosis came at the same time as she was pregnant with their fourth child. Miraculously the doctors managed to coordinate everything such that she received treatment and the child wasn’t harmed. The doctors assessment at the time was that if it came back they wouldn’t be able to cure it, if it didn’t come back for 5 years it wasn’t likely to come back. As you’ve probably guessed by now, 4 years in, it’s back.
It all makes comments and commentary on lines of code drawing shapes on screens sound shallow and irrelevant – hence no writing this week. I have never had to deal with that kind of news and can only imagine how I would react if something as serious happened to Sue.
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