22/05/20 11:09 am, Williamstown. Robyn Becker is in the final stages of terminal breast and gastric cancer and was told last week she could only have hours to live. Her sister Jennifer flew from California to Melbourne to be with her but is quarantined for two weeks. She has been given special leave from the hotel to be with her for an hour a time. “Each visit, our time is cut short and it’s devastating” says Robyn. Jennifer understands the necessity of the quarantine but says that there could be some flexibility for those in palliative care, “I want to be with her, I want talk to her, I want to hold her hand, comfort her and hug her” Robyn would sadly pass away on July 10th, seven weeks later. Photograph by Christopher Hopkins for The Age
