Today is your birthday and it would have been my Mom's, too, her 86th (of course she never got nearly that far).

I look at what I know of her life, and the fact that she never made it to therapy, and I look at you and what you are doing and I know you're doing the right thing, I see you healing and growing (admittedly, these have pains of their own, but not like the earlier pain)... I'm happy that you got the opportunity to overcome the past, which apparently she never did. I wish you a happy Birthday dear tree!! and some speedy days till you see T again.