Multiple Sclerosis Carer

Don tells me he wants to go to Sydney to see the Picasso Exhibition that is currently on.  My first thought was, Well of course that is impossible.  But then I wondered if it might actually be do-able.  After all, what’s the difference between getting him into the car to come home or out to lunch somewhere, or to the Sydney Art Gallery.  The only difference would be sitting in the car for an hour and half instead of maybe 20 minutes. I realised that I felt as daunted by the idea of driving through the Sydney traffic on my own as taking Don for the trip.

And we’ve always gone to art galleries, it’s one of the things we’ve always enjoyed together and used to do a lot.

But it is still a long way for him to sit in the car, and if things didn’t go smoothly at the other end, well we are a long way from home, and help.  So I’ve decided to take him to the local art gallery here at Lake Macquarie, and do a dry run.  They are showing the Archibald Prize exhibition at present (not the whole thing, but the selected works that they send on tour to the regional galleries), which I would very much like to see, and when I told Don about it he is keen to go too.  It’s about 20 minutes in the car.

So on Saturday we are going to the art gallery, and then lunch in the gallery cafe which looks out over the Lake, and I think it will be a really nice outing.  And I am hoping that will do us for the time being.  I’ve been told that he queues for the Picasso exhibition are miles long and you have to buy tickets in advance, so I am not really  enthusiastic.