Happy Birthday To Me

So, yesterday was my Birthday and I'mma do something different. Instead of writing just about my past, I think I'll explain some things.


This birthday was a special birthday to me and it wasn't because of anything normally special. I didn't meet my true love on this day, I didn't turn 1/4th a Century old, nothing like that really. It's special for a special reason.

You see, when I turned 23 last year, I thought it to be my last birthday. Yesterday proved me wrong and I'm so thankful it did.

But what made me think that was a few things.

First being my Coma of Feb 2010. When I awoke from that Coma, everyone, and I mean everyone told me that I should have died and that kind of talk hit me hard. It was then that I had giving up on truly enjoy life. I gave up on expecting anything but I didn't give up on life. I may have given up on truly being happy but I would never give up on life. I may have been so sick that I couldn't see anything good but I was determined to live each and every day till I died.

And then my 23rd Birthday came last year and I was so sick I had trouble keeping up the strong face infront of my friends and family. In my mind, at the time, I knew that I wouldn't live to see 24. I couldn't laugh without coughing up black phlegm at the dinner and at the end of the dinner I was coughing up lots of blood. I couldn't even make it to the after dinner nerdy events that I usually do on my Birthday.

It was like a tradition on my Birthdays for the last 8 years. We'd go to Dinner, which was paid for by my Mother, and it was always the same place too. It's a Japanese Steak House where they cook the food infront of you. It's called Itchiban here and it's my favorite place to eat in the city. After dinner we'd go over to either my house or my friends place and do various things. Watch Anime, play video games, play Dungeons and Dragons, Magic The Gathering, ect. It's fun.

But last year I could barely make it back to my Car after the dinner. And that's why I thought I'd never live to have another Birthday.

This year though, it was amazing. Same thing as always. Only a few friends got my presents, like every year, I didn't cough once, which on it's own is enough to bring me to tears of happiness, we laughed, and again, no coughs from laughing, we told amazing stories, and the chef tried to drown my in Sake. I did a couple Sake shots where I'd tilt my head back and he'd pour the bottle of Sake into my mouth. The first shot was about 1 and a half shots of Sake. The second one though....good lord. I think that was like 5-6 shots in one go. Then the next time I drank Sake I did a Double Sake shot bomb which was awesome. He stacked a Sake Shot on a Sake Shot on a Japanese beer. I drank the whole thing in one go.

And sadly that's where the sad part of the night came in.

Before I go on there is something you need to know. I can't get drunk. I've never been drunk. I have no idea what it's like. Because of my disease I don't absorb alcohol properly. My first time ever drinking was when I turned 18. I drank 23 bottles of Alex Keiths beer and an entire bottle of Vodka. I didn't feel a thing. At first I though I was just a good heavy drinker but it turned out a little different. The next time I drank was 3 years ago in Jamaica. I went on New Years and I had a whole resort of people giving me Jamaican Rum for a solid 8 hours. I can't even begin to count how many shots I had that night but I didn't even feel a buzz. The only thing that happened to me was I started to fart a bit.

So that was the only crappy thing about that night. While all my friends have hilarious stories of the times they been drunk. I got nothing.

Other than that, the was my best Birthday ever. Not because of all that, it added to the enjoyment but it wasn't because of it.

It's because I got a Birthday that I didn't see having. If you've read enough of these, then hopefully you can understand just how sick I was so my thinking back then was understandable.

So ya, hope you enjoyed this post and I'll keep posting them.