Jim’s wife April was eventually granted essential-visitor status at Eagle Ridge Manor in Port Moody, but the rest of Jim’s family were unable to visit with him in person.
The revised visitation rules allow up to two visitors at a time, as well as a child, and, importantly to family members, permits holding hands and hugs. Even from a distance, Elma said you could tell the enforced isolation from the pandemic had been hard on her father, who in his working life had been a horticulturist and then taught at what would later become the B.C. Institute of Technology.
Her sister Sarah O’Friel also saw the change noted by Elma, with Sarah saying it’s the first time you can see hope in his eyes.
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