My husband and I just moved in to a patio home in Independent Living at Trinity Woods and we are grateful/happy that we could. My husband and I learned in December of 2024 that he has a recurring sarcoma that is a nasty s-o-b, and the year 2025 has been a nightmare with chemotherapy sessions and hospital stays involving three weeks in March for treatment of thrush, a colostomy to avoid the tumor, a peg tube to give him nutrition when he has no appetite and blood transfusions, plus two weeks in M D Anderson Hospital in Houston in June to bring him back to life followed by another two weeks in a rehab hospital.
Since we moved here in June, we have been enjoying living in a quiet, safe and protecting continuous care community for seniors in midtown Tulsa. The people who are managing the campus are wonderful, and while we didn't want to move here so soon, we know we are the best place for us now that life has gotten more complicated.
As long as I am able, I will care for him. When either or both of us need the assistance, we will move into assisted living, and, in time, to their hospital/nursing center. There is also a memory unit now for people needing the services that provides anyone with neurological challenges such as dementia and Alzheimer's.
We had been living in an apartment downtown, which we had wanted to do for some time. It was great as long as we were healthy and self-sufficient. We thought we could be there until well into our seventies T least. When I broke my ankle, and when my husband subsequently had the cancer recurrence, we found it more and more difficult to function well. It was then that we de used that we needed to move, but only one more time. Trinity Woods even helped us move-and that was quite a lot of work that they did, moving us from a 16th floor apartment to the patio home. Again, we are so grateful.
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The cost is dear, but we are at a point where our lives are everything to us, and we want our children to be able to be with us as family and not as worried care providers. We have talked it over countless times, and feel that when the time came, Trinity Woods was the place for us. We are close to everything we want to do, secure in our home, and supported by a truly caring community. Thanks be to God, I can help my husband to the best of my ability. read more