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Subject: [Leica] IMG: CoVid-19 Chronicles No. 3
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:45:17 -0500
References: <9120ff69-7c95-9fb9-8f40-c3647b72e7b0@iol.ie>

It had to be hard leaving the known familiar spaces and move to a strange
place with strange people around.   Nothing familiar at all except family:
so visit often and at length.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 7:40 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> My 96 year old mother has lived in this house for twenty five years,
> since she sold the old property after the death of my father.
>
> Besides my other Dublin based brother and myself, she has a home help
> that comes in for an hour on weekdays, but remains fiercely independent.
> However, the arrival of CoVid and her vulnerability made us worry, so we
> have been searching for a nursing house for her until this crisis
> passes. Hopefully, she will be able to move back at that stage.
>
> We got definite confirmation of a vacancy today, and she moves there
> tomorrow. Today was spent packing her stuff, and thinking about the
> uncertainty of the future.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/CV19_Mother+reflects.jpg.html
>
> Taken with my old iPhone 5S
>
> Douglas
>
>
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