MURF TUESDAY

Every six months the McMurry University Retiree Fellowship meet and Lou missed the last meeting, but I took her to Abilene Tuesday for the noon luncheon. She really enjoyed discussing projects with other profs. She spent a lot of time with Rob Sledge who works part-time with the McWhinney publishing office. He wrote a book about football mascots in Texas and is working on stories about Abilene. Lou gave him some good advice and a few stories about her father selling produce in Abilene from a horse drawn wagon when a teen-ager. We visited with Bob Monk, who many, many years ago was the campus minister at A&M and has been a prof at McM for years. I finally got a good email address for him. His email has bounced for years. Lou sat next to Pug Harris, who had to leave to go teach class. She is having trouble retiring. We were disappointed that newly retired Joe Specht wasn't there because he took his wife to a Library meeting somewhere. The talk was about the campus development. We were the first group to meet in the new Furr Welcome Center attached to Radford Auditorium.

Tuesday night the laptop computer that our son helped us order from Dell when he was here was delivered and Lou is greatly pleased with it. I am helping her set it up and moving her old files from 3 1/2 disks to a memory stick. She will be able to work on her memoir book sitting in her rocking chair. That is what older writers do.

An update on Lou's cancer status. She is doing better today but has been having pain in her stomach and back. Today we called Dr. Hancock's office to get the report on her last CA-125 test taken 9/12 when she took the first Dixol chemo treatment. They Faxed the report and the value had moved up to 351 which indicated that the cancer is back and needed treatment. My research in ovarian cancer came up with a report that cranberry juice greatly improved chemo treatments. I passed it along to Lou.