Recently we visited Thomasville and saw many of our dear friends, including Mary Edna and Clayton Courson. Although they are not young in years, they are incredibly current in thought. It is a joy to talk with them. Another reason I love to visit them is the hour or two of joy we can bring them with our children. Mary Edna has lost much of her sight, but she oohs and aahs over the girls like she has never seen a baby before!
Clayton is a retired physician, so he is fascinated by all of the medical breakthroughs which Catherine has enjoyed. He tells us stories of his patients undergoing lengthy surgeries for issues which can not be fixed with outpatient surgeries. When he practiced medicine, children with feeding disorders died. He had read in journals about feeding tubes and G buttons, but Catherine was the first child he saw with one. I am so excited about the future of medicine. Maybe Catherine will someday tell her grandchildren how horrible it was that people with cancer had to undergo chemotherapy, radiation, operations and stem cell transplants. Maybe two generations from now cancer will be cured with the swallowing of one pill, with no side effects! We can only hope (and support research!!).
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