Tears trickled down Joe’s cheeks into his gray beard. The 75-year-old widower lay alone in a hospital bed in La Jolla, California after he had received a heart-valve transplant. Tubes in his chest drained fluid and a nasal cannula delivered oxygen. PIC lines in his neck and wrist supplied avenues for medication. A thick, metallic…
Joe and the Golden Retriever by Clive Aaron Gill
