The Life and Times of Mary Lou (Stage) Huffman by Huffman Marshall

Author:Huffman, Marshall [Huffman, Marshall]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Debby and Jerry invited us to go to Niagara Falls on vacation. It was a wonderful trip and so beautiful. However, Claude began to get very sick while we were there. He couldn’t eat or sleep very well, so after five days we decided to get back to Muncie, so he could see a doctor.

Claude began to lose a lot of weight and by the time we got an appointment at the doctor’s he was really sick. The report was very bad. Our terrific Dr. Bergwall called and told us to come to the hospital; he had something to tell us. All the blood tests showed that Claude had cancer. After the shock was over, I decided to close my school. I gave all my nursery children to different nurseries so I could be with Claude as the cancer was in all of his lymph nodes. He was to start on cancer treatment. He did great at first so I decided to try something different so I could be with him, too.

I wrote a program for Ball Hospital with the great help of my dear friend, Mary Whitaker. I could see they needed a Recreation Director for Pediatrics. The head of Pediatrics, Mrs. Brumley was quick to hire me as they had wanted someone for a long time to play with the children on pediatric floor.

I had a great time fixing a nice play room and getting toys in. One day I was in the room playing with a little guy and he started to call me “play lady”. The name got around fast so I became “The Play Lady” at Ball Hospital. They even did a big story about me in the newspaper.

Claude began to get sick again, but was going golfing with the guys because he thought he could get well that way. He did a lot to stay busy. He painted the house outside. He still went on golfing trips with his friends, but had to ride a cart, which he hated because he was a macho man and didn’t want to give in to cancer.

My wonderful boss would let me go home or stay at home as much as I needed to. We were able to go on a long trip to see all of my brothers and their families before Claude got too bad. Frank and his family lived in Louisiana. Gerald and his family lived in Tennessee. Bob and his family also lived in Tennessee. James and his family lived in Alabama. Ed and his family lived in Carmel, Indiana. I know that Claude knew he was going to die so he wanted to say goodbye to all of them because he loved all my family. The kids all came home to see Claude a lot and Debby spent lots of days with him. She would bring Jennifer over to see him almost every day and he really loved it. All of our children came to see their dad a lot.

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