When I woke up this morning, I realized today would have been my Dad‘s 69th birthday. As I sat in my wheelchair in my living room and tried to wake up, I celebrated this day by posting it on Facebook and began to mindlessly play Solitaire on my phone as I tried to wake up. It took me a moment to realize that not only was it my Dad‘s birthday, it was also World MS Day:
When I realized that was also today, I put my favorite Sara Bareilles song on Apple Music on my phone:
I absolutely LOVE that song and it reminds me of, “Walking Wednesdays” at Barwis Methods and when I was actively working on walking.
Even though World MS Day has only been a thing since 2009, I will have had it for 20 years this December. I got onto Facebook and immediately saw this and completely agreed with it:
I told my Mom this morning that I could not believe that my Dad would have been 69 today! I cannot believe that 14 years will have passed this August
and then exclaimed that my Dad is old! My Mom immediately took issue with that statement because she is 67. I told her that my Dad is a year and a half on and then her so she will NOT be old for another year and a half! In fact, I don’t think I will EVER think that my Mom is old!
In my brothers and my Mom’s group text today, my Mom texted us all to remind us all that today is my Dad‘s birthday and he would have been 69 even though he was 55 when he died. Then my Mom texted that she is a cougar because she is 67. That text made me laugh!
I wish that World MS day was not a big deal for me but for the past 11 years, it has been. In fact, for the last 19 years. So there’s that and I miss my Dad! I am wearing a V-neck white T-shirt just like my Dad used to and I always think of getting my Dad Oreos, lemon drops, socks, and T-shirts when I was young that was orchestrated by my Mom. I made my Dad a mixed CD for his 55th and final birthday he had with us.