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13 February 2023

Leaving the hospital yesterday we stopped to admire the fog bank creeping over the hills from the ocean. It had been a sunny if not warm winter day. Now the familiar fog was rolling in.

It was a celestial reminder to us that clarity is not all it's cracked up to be.

We had battled the medical authorities in the morning who wanted a premature release for our elderly, disabled patient to a facility where 24 percent of the staff had not been boosted despite a legal requirement they all be vaccinated.

There were other factors the authorities were discounting in this case. We insisted they mattered. Our elderly patient is nearly blind, deaf and immobile. Moving her to an unfamiliar place would only terrorize her. Getting her to the home she was familiar with for 62 years was the goal. But how?

Hence the fog.

There are, in cases like these, no great solutions. Everything has its disadvantages.

At home there's a fall risk. In a nursing facility, the risk of Covid and disorientation. You can't win.

But you can try.

And the fog that rolls in over the hills reminds you no one knows definitively what the best thing is. We just have to navigate our way through it as carefully as we can.


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