minorthird

so…today is my 30th birthday — I mean, the first anniversary of my 29th birthday.

I’m not a big birthday person, and I’m really not all hung up on my age — I’ve been writing “30″ as my age on all of the hospital forms for the last week just because it was easier (now, the fact that I’ve written “Father” on the line for “relationship to patient”, that’s just a bit freaky). With that in mind, I’ve had a pretty kick-ass birthday!

Without sounding cliche, I definately got the best birthday present from Erika in the birth of Samson. Today that was a gift that kept on giving: Sammy came off of the ventilator and was moved from a small incubator unit to a nice crib — that’s a huge step towards further recovery and going home.

I got to spend the day with family and friends. My mom and Erika’s folks are in town for Sammy’s surgery — my dad and grandfather were here earlier in the week. Jeff and Alisa stopped by with a gourmet lunch spread of chicken pate, shrimp and crab salad, and a strawberry kiwi salad. And later in the day, Jay and Su came over with a army-sized batch of sweet and sticky chicken wings and some homemade chocolate chip cookies. It really felt like an all-day party — I guess as much as spending the day in a hospital can feel like a party.

Erika asked me this morning if I could have possibly thought my life would be the way that it is today when I was 20. I told her that I had a mid-life crisis (I guess it’s cooler to call it a quarter-life crisis) on my 20th birthday: I had left school, and was working full time, paying my own rent and worrying about all my expenses — it felt like I had so many more responsibilities than my friends did. She pointed out that here it is 10 years later and I just got a new set of responsibilites and worries. I think I’ve grown a lot in 10 years, and at today showed me that I don’t have to try and tackle them alone.

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