But this birthday brings up an interesting question in that arena\u2014can I count people who call me<\/em> today with birthday wishes as one of my<\/em> strokiversary calls??? My friend John, who\u2019s been living up in Ventura for many years, (which means we rarely see each other,) always calls for my bday, so I have purposely not given him a strokiversary call yet. (Which means he\u2019ll get one toward the end of my anniversary year. Whether he wants it or not!) So I will be spending at least an hour on the phone with him today. That begs the original query\u2014can I count his call as one of my own? (There\u2019s no way I will be making a call to anyone on my own<\/em> special day!)<\/p>\n![\"images\"](\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/images.jpeg\")
<\/a>And as I expressed this past October, I\u2019m also grateful for my decade \u201cstrokiversary.\u201d (That means that I\u2019ve been alive for ten years since I had a mini-stroke.) To celebrate that wonderful milestone, I promised myself, and others, that on most days for the next year, I would call someone I\u2019m not in close touch with right now, but whom I still count as a friend and think about with fondness. Those connections have actually been great, even though I\u2019ve been too busy, or too tired, (from being busy!,) to make a call as often as I had planned.<\/p>\n