a very strange,but very true story...

this is a story that i have never told anyone much in detail... on May 13,1998,my soulmate celebrated her 48th birthday,in the hospital... let me re-rack it for you:on April 26,1970,she was in an auto accident,breaking her back(crushing her spinal card on the left side of her back),when she flew seventy five feet out of an overturning car,outside Milwaukee,Wisconsin... she was coherent when they found her,but she did not remember the accident... she had,i believe,fourteen hours of surgery,that night... both legs were ripped open from the knees to her feet,too... well,she survived another twenty nine and a half years,had three boys(one of her twins was stillborn),by C-section... she was paraplegic... back to May 13,1998,one of the steel rods put into her spine to stabilize it,back in 1970,shortly before her 48th birthday,started to dissolve into her spinal column,so the doctors did surgery on her birthday... what a birthday!!! well she had two more surgeries to correct a severe abscess problem in her stomach in the months further on in 1998,and then had her fourth surgery on her 49th birthday,where the doctors just opened her up,and found cancer,and just stitched her back up,sent her back to her apartment,and finally admitted her for the final time on July 26,1999... she died just short of five months later,on Christmas Day,1999... now,here where it gets very strange,on my birthday(August 20th),i take off for a five mile run,and literally go by the hospital that she was in... i literally stop on the corner,look at the main entrance,and say to myself(knowing that my soulmate was sick,somehow),that i better check,if she was there in the hospital... i almost did it,but common sense overruled my inner feelings about her being there,so i ran home... unfortunately,i find out that she was there in August,when she told me that in November... ever have that feeling that something is very wrong,and that is the feeling that i had on my 40th birthday... strange,isn't it,folks???