Another Spoke In The Wheel Of The Year, Breaks!:(

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So far, 2008 has not really been to bright, one way and the other, apart from the early arrival of spring flowers in the garden and on the bank out front. I know things can only get better, and I'm trying my best to have some influence of the outcome, but I'm getting to the stage where I'm wondering when there's going to be some brighter news around the corner. The year started on a sad note, when a close friend of mine bore me some bad news. He was in a quite withdrawn, desperate state, but I think we're working through that quite well. Then, came my dear friend Gabs, and her bad news. But, hoping the ultra scan shows that her given diagnosis proves correct, that can be dealt with, without too much worry, but Gissi also had problems, which have now been sorted, thank goodness. Next, I sustained the injury to my leg which was to confine me to my home for two weeks, but I had brightened up somewhat at my improvement. Then, my local close friend was admitted to hospital with a similar problem to Gabs', kept in overnight and told he would have to have an operation quite soon, as his stone was blocking his bile ducts. They are worried about the scar tissue around his liver, which is left from his ops to remove cancerous parts of the organ, so he needs to have his gall bladder completely removed. The upshot of this was that he had to cancel a trip to mutual friends at the weekend because he is still not too bright, suffering sickness and such. This morning, I was awoken at 7.00 a.m., with a text message from this latter friend. Mutual friends, and indeed, very good friends to him, are expecting their first arrival in April, and were over the moon about this. Well, at four o'clock this morning, my friend had received a call from the Expectant Father, saying his wife had taken a fall, and was losing blood, so they'd had to admit her to hospital. He was frantic... "in a dreadful state", were my dear friend's words. So, he was going in to work to try and get some time off to travel to Hampshire, approximately 130 miles, to comfort them, and do whatever he can to help out. (These are the guys I was making the Nappie Cake for). I don't like the thought of him driving all that way in the condition he's in, but I know he has to do it, and I have to wait for more news from him, when he finds out more about the situation with both Expectant Mother and Child. I feel so helpless. I have offered to travel down with him, just for the company and peace of mind; and perhaps to aid the comforting process, but he seems to be in a state of panic, and I haven't heard back as yet. I don't know whether he's on his way down, or waiting until tomorrow when he's refreshed. As she's seven months into her pregnancy, I have a cautious feeling that the baby may be strong enough to survive this fall, and I feel that short of going down there to help out, all I can do is to light a candle and send healing energies to both of them, and the unborn baby. I know how they're feeling right now. The loss of a child, especially the first, is a devasting, life-changing event, so I hope you might join with me in sending prayers and energies their way, please. On a brighter note... I am improving after my leg injury, little Louie, the dog, came into our lives, and all in Nature is being reborn, so I'm keeping a positive mental attitude, in the knowledge that no obstacle is impassable. It's a time for new beginnings, so we must keep faith that ours shall be pleasant ones, and keep faith. Brightest Blessings go out to you all, and especially to those of my friends who need them more than others, right now.