The business of packing up Margaret's home for sale has begun.
Fortunately, I get to do the easy bits. I've collected things she wants in the aged care facility and dropped them off. I've emptied the fridge and thrown away food and a few bits and bobs. I've let people in to collect things she's promised.
But for the most part I've left the really heavy lifting to her extended family. It's sad although everyone knows it is for the best - even Margaret.
She has always said she would be leaving the place in a box.
But after repeated hospital stays she accepted respite and now agrees the Lutwyche facility will be her new home.
Where once she sat at the window looking at the flowers planted by a neighbour, she now sits at a window looking at Kedron Brook. Her outlook may have changed but her daily routine not all that much and at least she will be well cared for.
She even has flowers picked from her garden in her new room as a connection between the old and the new.
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