Meet the retired teacher who knits caps for Crouse babies while she battles a brain tumor

Anju Varshney

Anju Varshney knits one cap every day, for newborns at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.

This story originally ran in the January/February 2022 issue of Central New York Magazine. The magazine is available by delivery to subscribers of syracuse.com or The Post-Standard for $25 a year. To find out more or to subscribe, visit readcnymagazine.com.

Every three weeks Anju Varshney sits in a hospital chair hooked up to a machine that infuses medicine into her body to keep her brain tumor from growing.

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