THANKS! everyone, I appreciate the warm wishes. Unfortunately, similar to last year when I had to rush my girlfriend to the hospital with horrible kidney stones, my aunt wound up in the hospital early this morning with a brain tumor. The good thing is that it isn't actually "in" her brain and it looks very operable. In this situation before, these surgeries go very well and the patient is fine, occaissional(sp?) seizures, but with medication nowadays, it should be a non factor.
Of course, this meant that I got to spend my birthday in the hospital again, but i also got to spend it with a lot more of my family than I had planned, which was good. More good news, my aunt found out that she's going to be a grandmother for the first time!
So, that means my mom is the only one in the family left who isn't one...crap...
Once again, thanks for the warm wishes...the hospital is in my town, so my uncle might be staying with me a night or two if the hospital is too much, I have his dogs here right now, so my brood of 5 is up to 7 temporarily.
Hope everyone else is well. thanks again!