BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator

Subject: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:19 PM

I've just found out from a thread that it was your birthday last Monday - can't let the occasion go by without wishing you all the best and hoping that this year brings all you might wish for.

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:35 PM

And from this ol' hillbilly as well, Poppagator. Happy B-Day!

B~~~~~

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Alba
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:40 PM

...and from the backwoods of Maine too Poppagator.
Belated Happy Birthday!!
Love and Blessings
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Peace
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:46 PM

From the frozen North, HAPPY BIRTHDY Poppagator. Belated, but like that cheque we all have in the mail, better late than never.

Bruce M

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 02:52 PM

And from way down south in New Zealand.
By the way, having your details in the personal pages wont bring up an automatic 'Happy Birthday'.
I know!
Mine is there but nothing happened on the 5th!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:13 PM

Aw, gee thanks, y'all.

It was a pretty good b-day. My long-awaited copy of Dylan's "Chronicles Vol I" was finally ready for me at the library, and my Netflix rental of the "Festival Express" DVD arrived in the mail that same day. My wife made a great dinner -- standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding, Baskin Robbins ice cream cake for dessert -- and my rich girlfriend came up with a hard-to-find bottle of super-premium 12-year-old Redbreast Irish whiskey. Yes!

Rentals and consumables -- nothing's permanent anyway, right?

This was the first birthday on which I gave any thought to happiness at simply being alive, having survived a bout with cancer earlier in the year. I never had any doubt but that the treatment would be successful (and it was, of course), but I certainly developed a whole new attitude about mortality.

Six months of taking all my nourishment through a plastic tube installed in my midsection was pretty sobering, to say the least. The tumor was on my right tonsil, and seven weeks of five-day-a-week radiation focused upon my neck left me completely unable to swallow. I still have damage, some of it permanent, to my taste buds and saliva glands. I'm back to eating solid food, but very slowly, one tiny swallow at a time. Can't sing worth a shit, either; sure hope some of *that* capability comes back! The healing process is said to take three years, so I'm counting on continued gradual improvement.

One good thing: I lost about 60 pounds and six inches in the waist (from 42 back down to 36), all of which I could definitely afford to drop.

I turned 57, by the way; figure I ought to be good for another 25 or 30.

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 03:40 PM

Well done on ya, PG!! Thanks for surviving and many happy returns of the day, without the mellerdrammer next time!! :D


A

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: skipy
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 05:35 PM

HAPPY BIRFDAY from a stranger

Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: GUEST,jacqui.c
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 06:55 PM

Both Kendall and I have had our problems with cancer over the past year. Mine was dealt with quickly and completely last December, with nothing but a nice scar as a memento.

Hopefully both you and Kendall will get back to singing - hell, at your age you have plenty of time! Keep us posted on progress, will you?

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Dead Horse
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:55 PM

Laissez les bon temps roulez.......
(Thats French for "You owe me a beer")

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Susan A-R
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 05:23 PM

Hmmm, wife made dinner, rich girlfriend brought the whiskey. Sounds like quite tne Birthday you rascall you.


Here's to many more, and to continued improvement in the singing/eating department.

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 06:00 PM

Hippo Birdies Two Ewes!
Hippo Birdies Two Ewes!
Hippo Birdies, Hippo Birdies!
Hippo Birdies Two Ewes!


Greetings from Foolestroupe T.W. (MA)...

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Tinker
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 06:50 PM

Another good wish from Northern New Jersey.

tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 02:57 PM

Poppagator.. I've been to Scotland on account of new Granddaughter. Belated best wishes. fB

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 03:42 AM

All you'd wish yourself, Tom.
Here's to a better next year.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 03:45 AM

Happy Birthday Poppa! I look forward to talking with you again in the chat...

Chris Childs

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 12:11 PM

Happy belated birthday Poppagator.

Subject: RE: BS: Belated Happy Birthday Poppagator
From: alanabit
Date: 17 Nov 04 - 02:26 PM

From me too.