Labor Day

Dear Family and Friends,

It is Labor Day 2009. Fall season and college football kickoff is in full swing! We have season tickets to Michigan State University (MSU) home football games again this year and yesterday saw the first home game of the season.

Why MSU? No reason in particular ~ we aren’t graduates of MSU although David and I have both worked for the university in the past. We have not always been college football fans however we have seen our excitement grow over the years and find ourselves enjoying the game and the football camaraderie with our friends Pam Benitez and John Molidor.

Yesterday, as we drove the nearly 90 miles from our home to the MSU campus, I reflected back and recalled how last year during football season my left breast was itchy and at the time I had considered mentioning it to Pam (Pam is a specialist in breast cancer surgery and did my breast surgery last winter). That’s the first I remember having that funny weird sensation in my breast and I could have so easily mentioned it – after all we were together game after game throughout the entire season. Why didn’t I mention it?

Would she have sent me for an ultrasound in September of 2008 instead of January of 2009 when I realized that there was a problem? Could the tumor have been discovered earlier and therefore possibly smaller in size mitigating the need for chemotherapy?

These days I’m thinking about a lot of ‘what if’s’ that I have absolutely no answers for. How often do we rationalize health concerns and not listen to our internal dialog?

I’ll just leave you with my rambling thoughts for the day.

Prayers and thoughts are with you.

Love,
Veronica