From World Radio, this is Double Take. I'm Les Silers.

Before we get started on this week's double take, we have a correction from episode 6,

the death dula. The virus that causes AIDS is spread most commonly through sex.

HIV can be spread through infected blood, but infection as a result of blood transfusion is very rare. Okay, on with the show.

When I was in college, I got a call for my girlfriend. She was in Saskatchewan, attending the Bible

college where we'd met the year before. I was in Edmonton, finishing my first year at the

University of Alberta. And, well, she broke up with me, over the phone, said we were going in

different directions. I found that confusing, because I'd just told her the week before that in the

fall I was coming back to Bible College, back to where she was.

The disappointment was keen. I did go back to that Bible college. She didn't. And that fall I met

the wonderful and lovely young lady who was now my wife. But that summer I struggled to see why

I had to go through that. I'd wanted something, a lot, and I was left with crushed expectations and what seemed to be an uncertain future.

I suspect that almost everybody has at least one similar experience.

You want something good, like a good job, an attractive and loving husband or wife, healthy

kids.

It seems to be in reach.

And then you get a phone call, or your child is born, and the room goes silent.

Something's wrong, and it seems like life will never look the same.

What do you do then? What does life look like?

What do you lose?

And what do you gain?

World reporter Elizabeth Russell met someone whose life changed like that.

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