Thank you everyone!
But my birthday has been bittersweet. Last Thursday my wife went in for a biopsy for a mass on her liver. We are supposed to recieve the results this Thurday. These events have been trying.
The Ohio State VNEA tournament is this weekend and I took both Thurs. and Fri. off to make the trip to Canton. But I can't go I need to be with my wife. The governing body at State (the OCMA) did grant another player in our league to be added to the team due to medical hardship. So a small "something good" has happened as I hate to let anyone down.
I have had many people offering thier prayers and it is much appreciated. I have never put much stock in birthday's. I don't do anything special for myself, it's just another number. But that changed today as for some reason. Maybe it's my imagination but it seems like everyone has come out of the woodwork to wish me a happy birthday and a prayer for my wife. Everytime they do I start to tear up and get emotional just like I am now.
I guess maybe it is that celebrating a birthday is celebrating life. And that life is precious.