Audrey Thornton

Cliff's mum had to go to Bendigo in Jan this year to have
surgery done on her left knee, but the doctor noticed she
was walking 'crookedly' and got an Xray of her right knee
which was operated on 13 years ago. The rod that was placed
in her knee had moved and it was causing problems so instead
of replacing the left knee, the doctor had to fix the right
knee.

She spend a week in hospital and then two weeks in a care
facility and then two weeks in Bedigo with friends. She was
preparing to go home when she got a phone call from the
Parkington hospital re her medication. Every year it has
to be adjusted and there was a vacancy for her right away.

So she came to Melbourne. She was only in hospital for a
week and they like the patient to say for at least ten days.
They would not let her go back to Mildura on her own so she
opted to come to Cliff's for a week.

He picked her up on Tuesday 3rd March. Naturally I had to
do the shop all day when he went to pick her up. But worse
I was expecting him back by 2 p.m. but he did not come back
till 4.30 p.m. as he decided to 'go shopping' at the cheap
export placees while he was down there. He never mentioned
this to me before he went!

I was exhausted as I had very little sleep on Monday night.