Two huge footprints, two very small tumors.

Ten years ago. Unbelievable.

Vivid memories crowd back in as we talk with friends at church about where we were when the news broke. Watching the children's moment, Laura points out that virtually none of the children were alive when the towers came down. "To them, it will be history, not a horrific day they lived through. How quickly our collective psyche moves on!"

Of course 9/11 was on everyone's mind.

But even thinking about and reliving this most defining event of recent history, it's been difficult to forget the other news so significant to us personally -- pathology from Laura's surgery uncovered two small foci of a more invasive type of cancer.

The good news that her sentinel nodes were clear was a great but short-lived relief. Now we wait for new data from the pathologists who are evaluating tumor markers, and we will take this information to an oncologist's conversation in about two weeks. In that discussion we expect to discern whether chemo would be a desireable strategy.

In the meantime, we are blessed with extraordinary healing, and Laura is thinking about cutting her planned absence from the classroom short by a week if the progress continues.

Decisions, decisions ...