April 10th, 2012 Meeting of the PBSS Attendees: Tony Abernathy, Walter Feaster, Matthew Ormsby, Alex Ormsby and Patrick Ray Financial Report: 781.79 Welcome back Walter. We continued the conversation about the need to add Walter to the PBSS bank account so that he could do his treasurering accurately. Given the banks hours Walter would only be able to meet someone to be added to the account during his lunch hour, from 11:30 to 12:30. We discussed him possibly meeting Bill around 12:00 sometimes before the end of April. Bill will be out of town the remainder of the week so the soonest date this could be done would be April 16th. I said I'd call Bill and let him know what we were shooting for to see if we could make it happen this time. Walter gave an account of his current illness. He spent two weeks in the hospital in San Antonio but is back in Midland now. His condition is thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. We broke down the words to try and understand the condition but I was unfamiliar with the word purpura (I've since learned it means purple). Essentially, Walter is having unusual clotting in his small blood vessels which leads to a deficiency of platelets (your clotting cells) in the blood stream. As a result bleeding can occur under the skin, which looks like bruising, which is.... purple. Mystery solved. Unfortunately his kidney is not functioning normally. His quote was, "Two weeks in the hospital, kidney quit, back on dialysis, it sucks." We discussed the possibility of a return trip to Blue Quail on either May 5th or 12th. Walter said he was probably free both weekends but Patrick, Alex and myself all have prior commitments. Tony said his wife will be having surgery soon so he also would probably not be able to make the trip. We also began to talk about the SWR but it doesn't look like anyone is going of the attendees so we undiscussed it. I mentioned that we were still waiting to hear back on a date for Abyss but we were shooting for the 1st or 2nd week in June. The meeting was closed with no undue objections at 7:23pm. Matthew Ormsby PBSS President </pre>The contents of this electronic mail message and any attachments are confidential, possibly privileged and intended for the addressee(s) only.<br>Only the addressee(s) may read, disseminate, retain or otherwise use this message. If received in error, please immediately inform the sender and then delete this message without disclosing its contents to anyone.</pre>
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