[Leica] IMG: Difficult days

[Don Dory]

I don't want to be a wet blanket,  this virus will be with us forever.
 The black plague is alive and well in praire dogs, influenza kills around
60000 people a year in the US etc.   We just have to adopt new ways of
living and invest in ever better medical everything.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:21 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I hope she will be one of the first to get vaccinated and that she will be
> able to go back home.  It will make such a difference in the world when
> this plague is gone!
>
> Best wishes to your mom and you.
>
> Tina
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:30 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
> >
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