My thirty-second birthday is just days away. While that in and of itself is hard to
believe, it is even harder to believe that I will be having knee surgery the
day after. But, with thirty one
birthdays that have come and gone, with another one just round the bend, I have
been thinking about my past birthdays.
We moved a lot when I was a kid.
No, I wasn’t a military brat, but a corporate one instead. We moved with my dad’s job, taking us from places
in Ohio to Kentucky to Florida to Ohio to Iowa.
I laugh now as I think of how many of the places I was completely
unaware of their existence, let alone the people in them. Now, I think of birthdays that were
celebrated along the way. I would
imagine that some of the birthday celebrations would look a little quiet to
those on the outside. But, moving so
much, the family bond has strengthened and those quiet family dinners, complete
with cake and song, are precious to me.
Now, with this new birthday approaching, I have been
bouncing back and forth between trying to decide what treat to take to work (chocolate
or savory), and how to prepare for surgery.
The reaction most people have when they hear about one following the
other, is a look like what are you thinking about combined with an unspoken, “really?”. Yes – really!
So, with all of that this is my thought about that. A new year is about to begin. And, I can’t know what will come. However, I am trying to look at it as an
auspicious beginning to this year, as the beginning of knee health. It’s a bit nerve wracking because we don’t
really know what is wrong the knee. Nothing
on x-ray or MRI, just a persistent pain, that has kept me stuck and missing out
on doing activities. All of that leads
me to my hope that this will be a year that is soon full of long walks, hikes,
and being able to walk more than a block.
I still don’t know what I will take to work Thursday – gooey
dessert or vegetables…
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