Pane of separation

 

Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman

Left: Terri Ritterhouse has explained to her dad, Troy O'Hair, why she can't come inside Touchmark at Coffee Creek to visit him. The 88-year-old has Parkinson's dementia, so Ritterhouse isn't sure he fully grasps that the assisted-living facility in Edmond has been closed to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic. Middle: Even though visitors are prohibited inside Touchmark at Coffee Creek during the coronavirus pandemic, Terri Ritterhouse still visits her dad Troy O'Hair, 88, three or four times a week. Right: Three years ago, Terri Ritterhouse moved her dad Troy O'Hair, 88, from an assistedliving facility in Alva to Touchmark at Coffee Creek in Edmond. She has gotten to know many of the others in the memory-care wing.

(Editor's Note: Troy O'Hair is best known by many Alvans from his role as principal at Alva Junior High School. This story first appeared in the Oklahoman and is reprinted by permission.)

EDMOND, Okla. – Terri Ritterhouse has tried to explain to her dad why she isn't coming inside his assisted living center, why she is only visiting him these days through the window.

She has assured him it's not because she is ill.

"I'm not sick," she had told him, "but the world is, and so we have to be very, very, very careful."

Does he understand?

Ritterhouse has no way of knowing - her father, Troy O'...



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