Wednesday, July 13th

Today Dad went for his 5th chemo treatment.  I didn't get to call him this evening to see how it went, so I have nothing new to report there.  I will try to talk to him tomorrow and report on his status then.  I did talk to him on Monday, and he said his weekend was pretty quiet and peaceful.  I did spend the day with him last Thursday while Clara went to play bridge with her friends in Dallas.  We talked a little in the morning, but his hydrocodon strength has been increased slightly and he was feeling the effects of it.  He was a little woozy and out of it.  So we postponed our conversation for a few hours while he grabbed a nap.  He had plans that day to have lunch with his good friend Bill Ralston.  He came about 11:30 and they went to eat lunch at a small diner in Pantego on Bowen Road.  He came back around 12:30-1:00.  He said he had a good visit with Bill and ate a good lunch too. It was great of Bill to come all the way from Greenville, Texas (about an hour east of Dallas, and an hour and a half one-way to Clara's house).  Clara arrived home about 3:30-4:00 and had a good day with her friends. The Woodwind house is coming along, not too many bites right now. Kassidy and Nick will be bringing Penelope into Arlington this weekend for her baptism on Sunday morning at Trinity United Methodist Church in West Arlington. And I believe that Reno and his family are scheduled to come into town soon too, I just don't remember the exact dates.  I think around the 21st of July.