Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

My mother just let me know that a biopsy and PET scan confirm that she doesn't have lung cancer, despite a suspicious X-ray in early April. The radiologist and the doctor who did the biopsy both told her that many biopsies are negative, but she didn't really believe that hers would be, even though she had no symptoms.

There is, or was, some inflammation and scarring of the lung, and she will be having periodic check-ups, just in case.

Also, she fell some weeks ago, while she was in Krakow (doing Holocaust education work). The doctor they called in at the time said nothing was broken; in the course of the biopsy they discovered hairline fractures, and those are all healing naturally and the pain is now minimal.

So, once again, my mother is basically in good health, not just "good health for her age." Both her parents also lived into their nineties, mostly in good heath, which is encouraging.