The question once posed to me was this:

"At what point in life do you realize you are no longer a child?"

Well, some say that it was as early when the got their driver's licenses, or got married or when the had their first child.

Not me, though.

Before I got sick, I felt and acted like a kid. Well, at least emotionally - certainly not physically. And after my transplant, I felt young just because I had a 22-year-old heart put into my then-40-year-old body.

Nope. Never thought I was aging. Nuh-uh. Not me.

But I do now.

Today is mine and my wife's 17th wedding anniversary and even that doesn't affect me too much.

No. What makes me feel like I'm no longer a kid is that...

I just got my first pair of bifocals.

I've known for about 2 years that I needed them, but I always got by with what I had. Unfortunately, That stopped being a good idea when I started to realize I couldn't see (always a bad sign).

Oh, well. As Fernando Lamas used to say, "It's better to look good, then to feel good. And I look mahvelous!"