Better visit...

 Okaasan MUCH better on our visit this week.

Sitting up straight, eye contact...eyes not all strange and filmy...

Still not much conversation, or actual verbal response, but eye contact, strange mouth opening and closing like a goldfish (does she think this is talking?) and smiles and waves.

We are relieved. Still we are only allowed a 15 minute visit, because it is the holiday season and there are other families and a big ban on people from out of state big cities , such at Tokyo and Osaka.

AND....get this....in such worrying times....when hospitals and care homes (and shared dormitories at high schools etc) regularly appear as COVID-19 cluster locations...this care home has decided to hold a Families Meeting this weekend! One of those 50-60 people crammed in a room listening to speeches affairs!

Like. Really?

At a time when you are restricting visitors to the care home, connections between people. Is is really a good plan to have 50-60 people from all over the region come to the building and cram in and out of the elevator? Sit together in a room for over an hour listening to speeches?

Really?

I put my foot down. Told Dear Son he shouldn't go. Stupid plan. They can send him an email or a newsletter. His time would be far better spent, prepping to come with me to a friend's small BBQ party....5 people from two families eating and drinking in a garden is a better use of time...and safer in Covid-19 times.