Earlene Hazelrigg:  

Life I've been married to Don Hazelrigg (Truman '84) since May '86. We finally had a child, a little boy, after years of thinking we'd never be able to have children of our own. Brett was born in March 2000 & he's changed our lives, for the better. He's just awesome & he's so much fun! =) I can't believe he'll be starting 3rd grade this fall. Brett is really into baseball now. This will be his 4th summer on a team & he loves it! He's starting to get pretty good, too. I know he would sleep in his uniform, hat and cleats if I would let him. His favorite thing in the winter is hockey, thanks to our friend Tim; and he loves MU and hates KU right along with us! Go Tigers! Don, is Chief Maintenance Engineer for Hilton Garden Inn in Independence. His schedule there is very flexible & it's great that he can plan his schedule around mine when I need him to. Brett and I do love that! Me, I'm a Charge Nurse in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU - on 9North) at North Kansas City Hospital, 3 days/week! =) I also enjoy selling Mary Kay Cosmetics on the side, too. I had quite a scare the end of last summer. I've had Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - which is basically hypothyroidism - for several years and then a pretty big thyroid goiter was found in Feb 2004. Last summer I ended up having the goiter biopsied because several new nodules showed up on a routine annual ultrasound; a biopsy of a few of the nodules came back showing characteristics of malignancy. That scared me good, so I decided to have the whole thyroid just taken out to prevent any further suspicious biopsies in the future. Final pathology came back benign!! :) What a relief! I see the endocrinologist every 3 months, have lab work...Expand for more