November 4, 2015
Christmas Newsletter from Carolyn Ruth
Last year, Christmas 2014, in spite of good intentions, I did not get one single Christmas Card sent!!!!
I did get my Christmas letter written, but it never made it out of the computer!! My physical therapist
later told me I was really puney when I got to her in Dec. It took 2 months of therapy to get me well
enough to give up the wheel chair at Symphony and 5 months all told to get dismissed the end of April.
Then immediately Willa, my white Bulldog, got very sick with ‘thrombocytopenia’, Her white blood
cell count dropped drastically and we found she had a tumor on her spleen. Nursing her thru that took
6 weeks, most of the time thinking we were going to lose her. But pills, an operation removing her
spleen and a tumor (benign) & lots of love brought her back and she is perky, happy and normal now.
So by summer my goals were moved up, and I was more than ready to leave my big home for a small
patio home in a retirement community. When I discovered I could take Coco and Willa with me to
Twin Towers Retirement Community, moving was a no-brainer. I have a 2 bedroom patio home, new
address: 5131 South Ridge Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45224, effective FEB.! I will be keeping the same email addresses: caruhunt@cinci.rr.com and caruhunt@msn.com I am working now to transport my old, longtime phone # 513-662-5532 into my internet system, so that will go with me; as well as
having a land phone with Twin Towers: # 513-853-2974. Target dates for move are during January &
February, I hope to be eating and sleeping there by 2/1, going back ‘home’ to finish getting my house
ready to go on the market 2/15 or shortly thereafter.
For further detail and lots of pictures on Twin Towers Ret. Community, go to www.lec.com/Twin Towers. It is a great place and I already have 5 or 6 friends residing there. ! While I hate facing
all the work, decisions and challenges involved with reducing my big house down to 1000 sq. ft., I am
excited and happy to be making my home in a place that will now look after and care for me to the end
of my days.
Just read Xmas letter 2014 for daily activity news in my life; not much has changed over the last year.
2 pics follow, showing my bad back & inside of new home (with their furniture, not mine) and 1 of the outside front. Special thanks to Sue Giles, her computer & teamviewer for getting the pics placed below. I am still alive and kicking (tho slower), and wishing you ALL a Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New year.