Today is my new birthday. February 20th. The day of my transplant. Since, a transplant basically reboots your entire system it’s starting over. Do I celebrate? I don’t really know what’s appropriate. What I should do is get a mini cake, invite a bunch of people over and smash it with my hands and face like one years do at their birthday party. All the while saying “I’m one!” Have everyone watch and cheer. Creepy when it’s not actually a child. Creepy when it’s a grown adult.
Do we celebrate these milestones? I don’t know. How much of this do people want shoved in their faces? I don’t really have the answer. But I will take cake, well maybe not cake but some sort of sweet treat. 😉 I mean really who doesn’t need a reason to eat a brownie or something delicious?
Hey Casey, it’s not creepy at all. Happy new birthday and you smash that cake and enjoy that brownie, because you totally deserve it!! And honestly, the timing is perfect: Valentine’s Day, a holiday that is usually about love and sweets, for you, is not all that sweet, as it is, as your previous post said, the anniversary of the most gut-wrenching, hellish time of your life. So make February 20 your Valentine’s Day: kiss Anthony deeper than usual, hug your dad tighter than usual, buy the heavily reduced conversation hearts and hand them out to show how grateful and thankful you are to all your friends and family who love you and have stood by you through all the crap and pain. And eat that brownie or piece of cake to celebrate you and your life and that YOU ARE A SURVIVOR and a STRONG AMAZING WOMAN. You deserve to be celebrated so why not make Feb 20 a day of love, joy and celebration? Besides, who says you can only have one special day? In the Jewish calendar, supposedly we all have a Jewish birthday in addition to our actual birthday (this I did not know until recently). So, you see, it’s good to celebrate YOU 2 times a year.
So again my dear, Happy Birthday and Cheers to you, and, as always, Go Casey Go!! 😀
P.S Albert will happily help you smash cake if you like, he still can’t wait to meet you! 😉