Posted on 07/10/2009 10:44:20 AM PDT by re_tail20
Today, on July 8, in the year of our Lord 2009, I will celebrate my 39th birthday — for the 44th time. I wrote about this last year when I turned 82, and earlier when I reached 81, and what I recounted then is still relevant and worth updating.
Not much is new since then. In October I was involved in a head-on collision with a teenage girl who crossed the median strip and hit me head on, leaving me with a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder and a spat with the notoriously penny- pinching Allstate, her insurance company, that says it wasn’t her fault — that she was blindsided by a phantom vehicle nobody but another young girl out of dozens of witnesses saw.
On top of that, a couple of months ago I woke up one morning with a lump in the left side of my neck which turned out to be a squamus cell cancer that invaded a lymph node. I had a course of radiation treatments that shrunk the tumor but it’s still there. We’ll see if this is the end game. It’s about time anyway.
I don't expect the occasion of my 83rd birthday to evoke widespread national interest since most people have a lot more important things on their minds than my advancement into my 84th year. (Yeah, that's right. I'll be 83 years old, having completed that many years in this vale of tears, but from July, 8, 2009 onward I'll be working on my 84th year. Pointing out this kind of fact used to drive my late wife nuts. "You're always making everybody a year older," she'd say.)
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Wow...great read. Great American.
As an aside, the reference to his 39th birthday was an old gag used by Jack Benny.
Bump for later reading
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