Lockdown Diary
GRETA COMES HOME FOR A LONG VISIT By Robyn Dixon
Greta Dixon lives by herself in a small apartment. As soon as lockdown seemed imminent my husband and I picked her up and took her to stay with us in our two-bedroom unit in the Tauranga CBD. I had to tell her about the bad germ called COVID-19 that meant that the Prime Minister had said that we all must stay home safely with our families. Her reply was: "Jacinda Adern said that did she? OK then". We brought her own bedding and as many of her familiar items as we could and moved her in. Because Greta needs routine and needs to know what is going to happen, each night she and I wrote up a simple plan for the next day including such things as a walk, aerobics on TV, meal and snack times, Ipad time, art time, cooking time. It worked really well. We called our patio area Courtyard Cafe and ate out there most of the time in the day.
Despite her issues and challenges, Greta did extremely well and I was so proud of her and enjoyed having her stay with us for so long, after 12 years living away from home.
Enjoying her lockdown lunch
Greta did a lot of baking during lockdown
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