Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, I commiserate with you. I haven?t seen my 97 year old mother in a nursing home on the east coast in over a year. I live in California and used to travel there quarterly. FaceTime with an iPad doesn?t replace the hug and kiss on the cheek that only a mother can provide. Vaccinations will arrive for her nursing home in two weeks. I hope I will be able to safely travel to see her again once I have been vaccinated... Stay healthy & be well, Richard Richard Clompus California > On Dec 16, 2020, at 1:30 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > I had to visit my mother in her nursing home for the first time in a > couple of months, and unbelievably forgot my camera, so had to use my old > iPhone 5S. I'll upgrade next year at some stage, and get a roughly similar > sized phone with a better camera. Her nursing home is only four km away as > the crow flies, but I don't have a flying car, despite all the promises of > my childhood tv programmes. Very disappointing really. Traffic was very > heavy, ominous really, as the closetted world emerges and goes shopping > for Christmas. What frightening jump in plague figures will greet us in > the early weeks of January? > > As for my soon to be 97 year old mother, she was in her usual vehement > fettle, as I met her, not in her room as before, but in one of a row of > garden sheds set up in the basement car park of her nursing home. We were > separated by a full perspex screen that split the shed, and each of of us > had microphone and speakers. The shed was tarted up like Santa's grotto > and was a somewhat incongruous situation as she complained long and very > loudly about being imprisoned by this virus, expounding about how she was > spending the tail end of her life like the Count of Monte Cristo, and most > definitely wanted to go home. Sadly, that's impossible with the current > plague. She's perfectly sharp intellectually, but, following a fall late > last year, needs someone to keep an eye on her. We had someone calling in > very day, but then the pandemic hit. > > It's difficult being charged with the other member of our family diarchy > with looking after the best interests of a rational adult. Anyway, she's > not the Count or even the Countess of Monte Cristo, but maybe has a claim > to be the Countess of Mounting Tinsel. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Xmas+2020+FF+Mum.jpg.html > > Douglas > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information