06/05/2025
The Birthday Girl, my beautiful sister, Happy Birthday to Heather. This photo may seem a bit odd, but here's the story:
3 years ago I had just undergone major surgery on my knee, instructed by docs not to move, my feet and lower legs began swelling and cramping so badly I had never experienced such pain throughout my whole body.
Here comes my sister, Heather, to the rescue.
As a trained massage therapist, she spent countless hours at my bedside helping me to walk again, move when I was ready, get back on stage, and not be in writhing pain day and night. I could barely sleep, and she got my body working again.
Mind you, it was summertime, she has 6 kids, lives on the east side of the valley, we're on the west side, you may as well live in traffic to get to our house, and yet there she was, at all hours, early morning and late at night, just to help her older, ailing brother out.
I'm in awe of all she does, service no one sees, whether it's caring for her little ones, volunteering to teach Zumba in her neighborhood as a legendary fitness instructor, serving at the Capitol with her husband who is a leader of our State, or just silently going back and forth to our house to help me...there's no one like my sister.
She's the world's greatest cheerleader, an incredible friend, and the first to tell everyone about my shows, while she screams, cheers, and laughs the loudest from her seat.
I love and appreciate you, Heather. Thank you for the amazing human you are. Happy Birthday.
