Post-career, Cathy feels grateful that she can continue to apply her skills, knowledge, and personal experience as a patient partner in research
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I think I’ve said it before about feeling that you’re making a difference, feeling that what you have to say is important, but also for me, personally as I’m aging, kind of a sense of self-satisfaction. I can still function at an intellectual level. I can still learn things. I can still analyze information, the things that I did when I was 35 and 40 that made a difference in the lives of children as an educator. I now I still feel, for the most part, that I can contribute it. I don’t know how many more years that will happen, but for now I feel that there are benefits to me as well as benefits to others.
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