[Leica] IMG: Difficult days

[Richard Clompus]

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
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> Douglas
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