“Yes.

But we also need to change the sheets, clean the bathroom, move the cables off the floor, and make sure she can get to her medications without struggling.”

“I can do it.”

“Then do it.”

He began with the television.

I stood in the hallway, resisting the urge to instruct him on every detail.

He carried it back to the den where it belonged.

Then he stripped the bedding, swept out the crumbs, cleaned the bedside table and placed the reading lamp near the headboard.