A quick update to let you know that Cliff lived through the night and is back in this world with us. Last evening he felt well enough to make a couple of eggs for his supper. By nine o'clock fatigue overtook him again and he went to bed. We think he ran a fever in the night because he was soaked with sweat at one point in his sleep. This morning he ate a normal oatmeal breakfast with his dish of blueberries and strawberries. He made up my bed, brushed his teeth, and is getting ready to do the dishes. We have haircut appointments for 10 and he feels enough energy to do that. He looks good and the grey skin color is back to human again. It's rainy dreary grey this morning with 100% chance of rain today. Yesterday was 68 with sun so I spent a few hours outside off and on while keeping an eye on him and making sure he hydrated. Late in the afternoon he did go outside for a few minutes because one of our beautiful large woodpeckers flew into a screened window, very unusual for that to happen on a screened window, and he carried it down to the leaves in the woods where we said good-bye to him.
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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