So today should be my dad's 56th birtday but-thanks to the cancer-he never made it past his 52nd birthday.  Again thanks to the cancer, his final 3 birthdays sucked.  For his 50th he learned he had cancer.  For his 51st he learned his cancer was back.  For 52nd he was dying.  
January 5 will mark the 4th anniversary.  FOUR YEARS  . . . four years without my daddy.
