Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > < > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >