SOMETIMES, life really isn't fair.
Just a few weeks after my wife and daughter took part in a Cancer Research fun run at Aylesbury on behalf of a cancer-suffering relative, she has now died...of a heart attack.
Unbelievable.
After steadfastly fighting ovarian cancer for more than three years, doctors had been hopeful her condition was slowly improving.
But at 47, fate was to deal the mother-of-two a devastating card.
My wife's sister-in-law collapsed suddenly yesterday and died later in hospital.
It seems such a terribly sad fate after she had cheerfully and bravely fought so long to stay on this earth with her son, daughter, and loving husband.
Worse, to be on the verge of defeating cancer and to die of something else entirely is an outcome almost too cruel to bear for her immediate family.
But I would imagine, what with all the treatments she had endured, that her heart had been put under tremendous strain.
Even so, it appears appalling bad luck.
It's also a shattering blow to her husband - my wife's brother - and their children, who had been hoping and praying for her full recovery.
What a tragic end.
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