Oddly Enough

Today...  is my birthday...  73 years young or old?  I guess it depends upon one's perspective.  What it means to me is that I am not young physically even though I go to the gym 3-5 days a week...  and that is also strange because I have a treadmill and stationary bike downstairs, just collecting dusk as they wait to be used by someone in this house.

Around my birthday 13 years ago, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphocetic Lymphoma and about 8 years ago on or around my birthday, I was diagnosed with Melanoma and in 4 days from today I will have a biopsy to determine if I have prostate cancer or not.  It seems that my birthday is not just full of Halloween surprises.  I never have liked my birthday actually.

On the other side of the coin, each birthday now is a blessing because I have lived another year longer than I could have lived...  and, there is nothing wrong with that.  My health is pretty good considering what I have been through and I have always been told that if you have your health, you have everything.