After spending almost two months in hospital, Deb's mom is finally in her permanent LTC home, in Kingsville. She made her epic journey from Lindsay on Thursday. Ambulance from the hospital there to the local airport, then she was flown via small plane (Ornge) to Windsor, met by another ambulance, and transported to Kingsville, where we were setting up her room and awaiting her arrival. She left the Lindsay hospital at 9 am, and arrived in her new home just before noon. She has to isolate in her room for 14 days. Her meals are delivered and eaten there. Deb can visit, but has to wear the full PPE gear when with her. The entire complex has been called the Hilton Hotel of LTC homes, though right now because of Covid it looks more like a wartime triage center. We both had to be tested yesterday for Covid. Hopefully it will turn out negative.
By sheer coincidence, all of her belongings from Lindsay arrived Thursday as well, at 10 am. There were 34 boxes. For one tiny room. We ended up having to take about 20 boxes back home with us. A big shout out to Randy G. and his pickup truck, who came right away from Windsor upon request and helped us bring stuff home. Not sure yet what we'll do with it, as we can't even visit the local 2nd hand shops. But Lois is in her new home, and the room looks pretty good.
Nurse Deb. She has to wear the full kit when visiting her Mom.
In Mogi news, we are currently in Day 14 of his recovery program. That means that tomorrow we can take off his collar. He'll be one happy little dude, but we have to watch that he doesn't scratch at the incision, at least for another week. Here is today's picture, showing a much improved cat.
In movie news, I have one film to report. Calamity is a 1982 Czech film about a man who drops out of university and decides to become a train driver. His father runs the station cafe in their hometown, and wants him to help out instead. The film is a light romantic comedy, quite hilarious in places, but also a not so subtle critique on the country at this time; the railroad is literally a shambles, barely a shadow of what it once was. I generally love Czech cinema, and Criterion has so much of it awaiting our view. I'm still trying to go through all of the Fassbinder works, as well as Scorcese's World Cinema Project. While far from an art house cult film, I can highly recommend this film for those days that nothing heavy is required.
From the DIA, a beautiful Japanese screen depicting scenes from the Tale of Genji. This was probably the first novel from a foreign culture that I read. Deb and I actually read it aloud back in the 1970s. Despite it being perhaps the first novel ever, there haven't been too many film adaptations. And we haven't viewed any so far. Nothing of the sort on Criterion. There is an animated version I would love to see.
Central detail.
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