[Tobra]

Not at all Tony, your tale dovetails perfectly with this. Marv, I hope you never find out if you are that strong, you won't know until you don't have any other choice. I don't want to find out even a little bit. I don't know about having much Patrick, took all I had not to cry like a kid who saw his dog get hit by a car in front of them.

I could not understand how he had not died sooner, he was in the hospital about 3 weeks, looking like he was going to pass any moment for most of that time. The hospital has not been allowing visitors since like March, so she had not seen him for 4 months. She took Uber to the hospital Saturday morning, wheeled her chair up to the checkpoint where they take the staff's temp and ask them if they have had any symptoms prior to giving them whatever color sticker they have to put on the ID badge that day. She was going in to see him or going to jail. She went in and they spent his last day together, holding hands and talking to each other like love struck teenagers, and they were teenagers before unleaded gas was a thing. Frankly, I was pretty surprised to see her. There are these Lipton tea things that you get in a little plastic bottle, she likes the sugar free ones and I had one in the break room fridge that has been sitting there about a month, waiting for the next time I saw her, so I went and got it. He was sort of out of it. Normally, when nobody could get him to do something that needed done, she turns on the Mom Voice and he does it. When I came in, he is trying to rub his eyes and not hearing either one of us telling him to stop. I got right in front of him, so he could see me, he snaps out of it and says, "There's my buddy," smiles and relaxes. I stayed as long as I could. She eventually had to go home and rest, he passed soon after she left.

I was talking to my wife about it. She is a nurse, spent plenty of years in the ICU, CCU and ER and has far more experience with this sort of thing than I hope to ever have. Like I said, that guy was tough as nails to survive as long as he did. My wife said he held on until he saw his wife again, then waited until she left, so she would not have to watch it happen. She acted sort of surprised that this never occurred to me.

Tell your family you love them every time you talk to them, just in case.