Transplanted Family Finds
Community in Cypress
PINPOINTE RESIDENT PROFILE
By Patricia Hudson
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t was Divine Intervention. Darrin and Suzanne Lewis met at church, when Suzanne was invited to attend by her terminally ill patient, and Darrin headed the Sunday school. “When we married, I was 24 and he was 25. When Darrin proposed, he gave me three gifts. The first was a Precious Moment figurine of a bride and a groom. The second was a board game; he said he wanted us to be able to spend our life, enjoying our time together. The last was an envelope which held an insurance policy. At the bottom, was my name, as his fiancée. He said, ‘I want to make sure that if anything ever happens to me, that you'll be taken care of.’ That is how he let me know that he wanted to marry me,” recalls Suzanne. Darrin is a Business Analyst with Alight Solutions. “I am the in-between person with the client and our technology group. I oversee the changes, updates and fixes that need to be completed to the client’s system. I have been with the same company for 24 years.” A 30year veteran of the healthcare field, Suzanne began her career as a Combat Medic in the Army Reserves at Ft. 6 September | October 2021
Sam Houston. “I am board certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, and a Certified Health and Wellness Coach. I also work in Corporate Health and provide Primary Care Services and Wellness Education. Darrin and I own Avery Integrative Healthcare Services. We provide community education, Holistic PatientCentered Care, Health and Wellness and Mindset/Behavior Change Coaching.” A family move from Wisconsin to Texas in 2012, resulted from Suzanne’s diagnosis of an Inflammatory autoimmune disease. “The cold winter months and the added stress from completing my Nurse practitioner program created the perfect storm for a flare up of the disease processes in my body,” she explains. “This sparked my journey into Integrative health and wellness, as well as our journey to warmer weather.” “When we moved to Texas, one of our biggest concerns was whether we would have the community that we had back in Wisconsin/ Illinois area. To our surprise, we had
