I turned 54 today. When I was younger and relatively healthy, my ex-wife and I joked that we only want to live until 50 since growing old sucks. Well, after a divorce, heart bypass surgery, dialysis, and a kidney transplant, I am still alive.
Several years ago, our family decided to forgo gifts for birthdays. Instead, we would just gather and have dinner and cake. For today, my parents got some dishes from a nearby Chinese restaurant, and my sister-in-law bought an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. I was quite surprised since I thought DQ went out of business years ago, and ice cream cakes come from Baskin Robbins. The last time I was inside a DQ store was probably more than 40 years ago in Mississauga.
The cake was quite good. After we ate, there was still about 40% of the cake leftover so I brought it home. I will have to cut thin slices and slowly eat it over the next week to avoid a sugar high.
Life with chronic diseases 