Sunset from Hill House, Mount Helen. February 2024

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Moving Day

Jim was a bit disconcerted when I started talking about Moving Day. He thought I meant that we were moving house! You know - you might have mentioned it before now :-D

But no.  It was the surgery and the pharmacy that were moving - all the way across the shopping centre, pretty much opposite to where we were, to where a restaurant used to be. It closed ages ago and has been empty ever since. The new clinic is lovely and bright and light.

Friday was Moving Day. For us, at least. The pharmacy moved into their new space the weekend before. We closed our consultation diary at lunchtime, although we did run our Covid vaccination clinic in the afternoon. We grabbed a load of supermarket trolleys and just trundled our stuff across. Back and forth we went, carting things over. And by going home time the move was well underway.

Lots of people turned up again on Saturday to carry on the process. I did not. I was busy in Ballarat, doing Useful Things at home and looking after Rupert and Hugo on Saturday evening.  The final clear out of the old clinic was yesterday. I think quite a lot of junk and perhaps-not-junk is cluttering up the new place while decisions are made about their future.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new look surgery, which is now up and running, when I go in tomorrow.

Jim came out to the mushroom farm and the Elaine farmgate shop with me on Saturday. They have almost finished the interminable roadworks beyond Buninyong, which have been going on for months and months and months. They are cleared from Buninyong to Scotsburn. I live in hope that the rest of the work will be cleared very shortly. It is very tedious driving along a country highway at 60 km!  I came back along back roads. It probably doesn't take any less time than driving at 60 along the main road, but it's more interesting. Jim enjoyed his trip out and was surprised but pleased when we came back along the back roads.

His support systems are beginning to come into play. A district nurse came this morning to help him use our shower. He doesn't like our shower anymore.  He finds it a bit small and worries about over balancing. The district nurse had him in and showered, dried and dressed with no trouble and no worries. Someone is going to come on Tuesdays and Thursdays to help with the shower plus he can use Lindsey and Ian's shower, which is bigger, when he is up with Rupert and Hugo. He has an appointment with a podiatrist later in May. An OT is coming out to do a home safety assessment in a few weeks, particularly focusing on the bathroom. And he got an emergency appointment with the dental technician to have new bottom teeth fitted so doesn't have to wait until July. 

It is cold, foggy, damp and gloomy today. It was much better yesterday morning:










Oh - and these came in the post yesterday. Now that was exciting




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