Happy Birthday, Jacqueline!!
I am working on-site at a medical practice that treats children (speech and OT), so there are kids running around, singing, dancing, playing, and so forth. And of course, they ask me questions about the computer, which is cute. I'll be here for a couple of days.
Pediatric Heart Surgery
They are miracle workers. My niece wasn't supposed to live because she had one too few chambers. They told her mother she wouldn't survive being born, wouldn't make it to being a toddler, wouldn't make it to puberty. They built her another wall, and have done another half dozen or so surgeries over the years because the fake wall doesn't grow with her. She is in her 30s now and has had a child herself.
Yeah, wow, can't imagine.
And, although my broken parts are different,(My heart's fine, if a little too inclined to give a fuck when it's not its turn to give its owner equinamity(sp?) I'm very glad somebody notices the way we keep on keepin' on with parts damaged in shipping.)
To borrow a bit from Adrienne Shelly in my favorite ep of Homicide, "Since something happened to me, I'm glad to know people like you are out there."
Happy birthday, Jacqueline!(Hope you get an important gift this year and get your life back.)
Thanks, everyone! I am celebrating by napping, mostly. Later Emmett will be over and we'll have some dinner and watch something (my choice, but I haven't decided yet). I finished conference, felt momentous, and then listened as everyone completely forgot it was my last time and just bickered their way into the next meeting. Ah, well. They'll feel some pain next week.
Happy birthday JZ! They will absolutely miss you....but I hope you get to do a little fun in retirement, between trips to LA.
