Heard in a Word

       On the air, I heard of someone who was an "oxygenarian"--yes, that was the sound, which I knew must be "octogenarian," but once I heard it that way, I realized indeed both "words" apply to me.

       I am in my eighties,  83 as of this week--my prerogative to take the whole week for my birthday at this age--but with asthma and what my primary physician has referred to for the last five years as COPD,  I have breathing challenges that make me an "oxygenarian" too.

       I might as well, while claiming seven days for my birthday, make a single word serve up two meanings that both apply to me!