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"This keeps spreadij a disease.” Bubba-tat OYZ by Will Uoy<A Continued from page If EDUCATION TIP #33V THE SWOPOS IN FeNCINC APE iNoeeo veey pointv.' Moore’s wife Nancy said husband sacrificed a lot of with his family to raise money. 1|^^_ “There was no time fork: ie YtAH, I KNOW. WC M»MT JUST ACCIDENT ALLY Shove it coMPtereiy THeoue* my CHtsrr 500 jve Aggie Continued from page 1A Wood and Gober shared an interest in spending time with children and helping them in physical as well as mental aspects. In her time as an Aggie, Wood and her best friends brought Destination Imagination, an organization similar to Odyssey of the Mind to Texas A&M. “Aside from teaching, she wanted to be a D.I. coordinator for a school where she could be the per son who organizes the teams and gets them to the tournament,” Gober said. As the fall semester ended. Wood became sick constantly. Her condition became evident when after rushing through her last final exam she was unable to walk back to her dorm. Her parents drove from their home in Terrell, Texas, to pick up their daughter and admit her into Baylor Hospital in Dallas. Several operations and biopsies later revealed that she had several growths in her body, and do lors diagnosed her with Hodgkin’s disease. According to the National Cancer Institute. Hodgkin’s Disease accounts for less than I percent of all cancer cases in this country. After these various procedures. Wood was released from the hospital and allowed to go home for Christmas. “It was nice because all of her family got to come in and be w ith her,” Gober said. “So she got to see everyone before she died." On Jan. 2, she was to be transferred to a differ ent intensive care unit because doctors had told friends and family that she was doing a million times better than how she was just two days earlier, Gober said. “Being generally 95 percent curable, we thought we were dealing with ‘good’ cancer,’" he said. Wood was buried in a Texas A&M “Maroon Out” 2002 T-shirt, an A&M necklace and a maroon casket. “She was all about A&M; she loved going here,” Gober said. grieve, and that was veryfo tating for him," she said. Burk said Habitat Humanity continues to rc checks in the mail from ft throughout Texas. Bubba said the project different that people still \ support it. “It so captured their ine lions that they are all stills® money,” he said. Although Bubba reachec goal, he said the project w experience that will not be fen ten by him or his family. “I think that I got moren it than the people who will| fit." Bubba said. "My wife* after being married for 29;; na could not communicate wit other, and after going tki with this we have beenconr eating so much better.” After the sixth nighi. M: said he had almost given up, now looking back, it was (hei Christmas that he ever had. 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