by Tom Lewis | Aug 4, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates
Love Cathy was diagnosed with glioblastoma seventeen months ago. Her courage seems endless despite the building momentum of her glio-symptoms. Her steps are shorter and less certain. Her confusion is a bit more and her memory a bit less. Our embraces and hand holdings...
by Tom Lewis | Jul 21, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates, Education, Mission Trips
We are home and getting back to our normal routine after our latest mission trip to Serabu, followed by a checkup visit at Duke Cancer Center. Our Serabu experience was bittersweet. It was the first time in 37 mission years that Cathy had not performed eye surgery....
by Tom Lewis | Jul 7, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates, Education, Mission Trips
June 29, 2024. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dr. Cathy Schanzer presented “Unusual Patient Pathology at Southern Eye Clinic” to medical students and faculty of Connaught Medical School in Freetown, Sierra Leone. During her talk she profiled the impact of...
by Tom Lewis | Jun 3, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates, Education, Mission Trips
June 2, 2024Cathy Schanzer UpdateReturn to Serabu by Tom Lewis The last couple of weeks have included a mission presentation to our friends at a local Presbyterian Church, a 2800-mile road-trip to Subiaco Arkansas, and today’s Corpus Christi Procession. During all...
by Tom Lewis | May 19, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates, Education
Three Candles Three weeks ago, we lit a candle in front of a statue of Mother Mary holding Baby Jesus, to offer our prayers of thanksgiving and appreciation for the opportunity to visit her Shrine in Lourdes. While in Lourdes, we lit a special prayer candle for our...
by Tom Lewis | May 16, 2024 | blog, Cathy's Updates, Education, Mission Trips
Pilgrimage to Lourdes in Three Parts May 1-8, 2024 Part 3 of 3: Our favorite joy of Lourdes are its people, beginning with Mother Mary and Bernadette and all their skeptics turned believers, and continuing with those on this Pilgrimage: malades resting their ills in...
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