Happy Birthday Dear Sweet Alison!
And Wishing You A Wonderful New Year

Happy Birthday Alison, I like to think us women age like wine. The older we get the better we get. I hope your day was fun.

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Dear Alison!
My wishes for a wonderful day and a terrific year.
and my thanks to you for your generousity in sharing your wisdom and your dedication to this site.

btw- your name reminds me of Torrey Pines, that lovely hike no. of San Diego where those beautiful pines come all the way down to the sea. just seeing your name cheers me up

i want to thank all of you for the wonderful birthday wishes. it really means a lot to me - my own family (brother and sisters) are not so good at marking these occasions, self included... although we're trying to get better at it - anyway, it just makes it so much more meaningful when my forum family reaches out like you guys have today.

i have to confess (thank you, peg!) that i am all of 57 years young today, not 50! god, how did that happen? time goes by so fast... this year, especially, seems to just have gotten away from me. i guess i've been having fun. something's flying, anyway!.

i found a great quote while trying to do some research on the internet the other day, which i'd like to share with you all here before it goes up on the old refrigerator:

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." Edith Wharton

when chelsea was little, i used to "give" my birthdays to her - only partly in jest. subconciously, i think, because i felt that i needed to fight getting older - time being the enemy and all! - and of course living here in LA did not help that particular mindset... vanity thy name is woman... need i say more?

but i've never, ever lied about my age. never have i looked my age, either - people are always shocked when i tell them how "old" i am-. but it would just be too complicated to be dishonest about it; i'd have to then lie about chelsea's age as well as my own, in order to pull it off properly! not good enough at math for that - and, who really cares, anyway? i ask you...

i've earned every last wrinkle. can't take any real credit for looking younger than my years - that is pure genetics. i was telling someone just the other day, in fact... that because the severe pain of TOS hit me so young - it happened to be at a time which was way BEFORE it became fashionable for women to go to the gym to work out - i never did any of that stuff.

i really should be as big as a house by now. the fact that i am a size 4 is some kind of a medical mystery. i'll have to ask dr. karlis ulllis when i see him in a couple of weeks about this (he is the sports medicine/anti-aging doc that i stumbled across in my quest for cranial sacral work: www.agingprevent.com).

hey, maybe it will turn out like the portrait of dorian gray... he'll be able to figure out how to get rid of my TOS/RSD/FMS pain, by prescribing supplements and dietary changes... but i will immediately start to look my age and then some!!!

actually, that is a deal i would accept in a heartbeat!

anyway, thank you all again for the birthday greetings and wishes. you fill me up! don't know how i would deal with my TOS mess without each and every one of you.

alison
"Be Brave"

Damn girl, if that pic of you is recent, you don't look 57. You are pulling my leg or I am reading wrong...got to be. Fess up and tell the truth!!! If you are 57 you are a darn fine looking woman!!! ( at any age you are a darn fine looking woman, you know what I mean!!!)


Rach

Happy Belated Birthday, Allison!!!!!

Hope your day was filled with laughter and fun....


Sandy

First, Rachael, you are right, Alison does not look her chronological age, and I've met her in person!!! I thought you (Alison) were just turning 50...but I like being honest about my age, too - something about having survived another year on Earth makes me feel proud rather than wanting to hide it. That's me, anyways...and God, yes, I'm a vain woman! Haha.

Alison, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that quote of Wharton's. You ALWAYS find the best quotes, poems, words...I LOVE that about YOU!

God bless you and keep you safe around us for a long time...

Alison,

That's it!! It's the picture that threw me off!!!! Ha!

Lookin Good!!!

Peggy

Hi Alison,
Sorry I missed your Birthday so
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY WISHES!
Due to travel, couldn't get to cpu.
Damn you do look good girl!!!!!
I hope you had a great time and now I totally get you....Libra!!!!!

May each day be filled with joy over the next year and may you find the joy you much deserve!!!!

My heart is with you and many prayers of love and peace and pain free days for the rest of this and every year to come!!!!

Love and hugs,
Victoria