Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Thursday, May 20th

 

The house is very quiet this morning.  We were both awake by 6.30 so, following our usual pattern, I made coffee for us both.  Marilyn always has hers in bed while I take over the lounge room to catch up with the ABC News.  I wandered back in to the bedroom a little later to see whether Marilyn wanted more coffee and found her sound asleep.  This is very unlike her as she is usually up and busy, getting me organised and giving me the instructions for the day.  Still, it’s quite cool and overcast and we have no plans for the day so I won’t disturb her.

Our planned trip to Hobart has been cancelled; one of the Aged Care Homes has postponed their Covid injections so Nera is no longer needed there this weekend.  There’s nothing to stop us going anyway but I think we’ll hold off until another time.

We’ve been in Longford for 6 months now and we’re finding that the hardest adjustment we’ve had to make is changing our medical arrangements.  We’d been with the same practice for over 20 years; everybody there knew us, we were comfortable with them and confident they would look after us well.  The practice here in Longford is just up the road so we could walk there if we wanted.  We contacted them and arranged to be put on their books and were allocated to a Doctor Inglis, a pleasant-enough young lady but gives the appearance of being a little scatter-brained.  Nothing you could put your finger on but not as warm and comforting as Dr Hampson in Mowbray.  Maybe we’re getting old and believe anyone under 50 is scatter-brained.

Another issue is that it seems to be taking forever to transfer our feet to a new podiatrist but, of course, we arrived as Covid was staring to put extra demands on Medical centres and the staff were under pressure so I think we need to give it more time. 

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