Yes, as of 1:47 a.m. (so my Mother tells, me -- I, of course, don't have any conscious memory of the event, and she still teases me about keeping her up all night...) on December 8, 2011, I will celebrate my
50th birthday. As I am the first guy on my Dad's side of the family to know about antithrombin disorders, as medical science has only known about them for a generation or so, and since I am only the second guy in the family to live this long in over 100 years, it is worth celebrating publicly. Thanks to that miracle of that rat poison, also called coumadin or warfarin, keeping the clotting under control, and heparin to dissolve what has clotted, everything is stable, and my family and I are looking forward to many more years, and hopefully my son will be the first in our family in over a century to actually grow to maturity with his Dad still alive.
Now, to the extent Sean will allow, you can wish me a happy birthday by posting pictures of good beer, good food,
tasteful other pictures
, etc., as we all used to do until the bandwidth consumption just became too great and Sean had to clamp it down. Thanks, Sean, in advance, for this minor indulgence.
