Posted November 21, 2023.
55 and still alive! I keep a list of my birthdays on my phone (well, not surprisingly, the date stays the same, but what I do on that day changes from year to year). We're not big birthday people, but sometimes it works out that we're someplace cool on November 21: Luang Prabang in 2006. Ho Chi Min City in 2009. New Orleans in 2013. Paris in 2014. Belize in 2016. There's been plenty of quiet birthdays, too, and I really don't mind them, either, most of the time.
Five years ago, my 50th birthday, we stayed home at the cabin, as I couldn't risk catching some bug prior to my double mastectomy on Monday.
Last year on November 21, I took my mom to Fergus Falls Urgent Care with suspected pneumonia. Dad had recently broken a kneecap tripping on a dog toy, and couldn't drive. A really nice and competent PA saw us at Urgent Care, and he determined no pneumonia. A month later, he shot and killed his girlfriend in St. Paul. Apparently, his wife (also 4 kids) knew about the girlfriend. I can only imagine it would be more shocking for your husband to be convicted of murdering a girlfriend you didn't know existed? Anyway, we went through the Subway drive through after Urgent Care. Tonight we're meeting my family at Fiesta Brava for dinner. Will hopefully be uneventful.