Donnie Gives Clyde to John Thomas

Donnie has been spending more and more time in bed on a daily basis.  If I had to estimate, I would say that he spends about 20 - 22 hours in bed a day.  This seems to be the only remedy for his extreme depression.  I believe he will be happiest when he is able to sleep eternally.  Yesterday, the only thing he wanted to do was to watch the televison show, GLEE.  He watched a few other shows with his parents, but watching Kate plus 8 seemed to put him in a bigger depression.  Kate and her eight children were in Australia at Steve Irwin's zoo.  It mad him happy to see them playing and feeding all the animals.  That is one side of the coin.  The other side of the coin is the extreme sadness that overwhelmed Donnie as the reality is he will never get to go to the zoo in Australia and do the same thing.  He was so sad that he cried himself to sleep.  I am certain that is what prompted Donnie to give Clyde to John Thomas today.  Donnie has been neglecting Clyde for a few days now.  He did not realize that Clyde had been in the same position for three days now.  When he went to his bearded dragon's terrarium, I was certain that Clyde was dead.  Donnie looked at Clyde.  I think Donnie thought Clyde was dead too.  He touched him.  Clyde was ice cold.  He picked up the lizards tail and Clyde did not move a muscle.  Donnie tried to pick up Clyde but the bearded dragon was completely lifeless.  I watched Donnie as he began to cry....


John Thomas picked up the lifeless bearded dragon and put the freezing lizard's body next to his body.  Clyde's heart was resting on John Thomas's chest, right over his heart.  John pressed Clyde firmly against his chest and I could feel the heat leaving his body and entering Clyde's.  Within a few minutes, Clyde's eyes began to open.  Still motionless, Clyde's eyes rotated to see everything that was taking place.  John Thomas just laid on his back and allowed Clyde to rest on his warm body as if he were basking on the sand soaking up the heat from the sun or in Clyde's case, a heat lamp....


Donnie looked at John Thomas and smiled.  "I want you to have Clyde!"  It was quite a defining moment for me.  It was so nice to see Donnie happy.  If even for a moment.  John Thomas did not say a word.  He just smiled at Donnie and just held Clyde even closer to his body....


What happened next was amazing.  John Thomas took Clyde and went into the bedroom and took a nap with Clyde.  He laid on his back and Clyde took a nap on John Thomas's chest.  Clyde did not try to crawl away, he just closed his eyes and went to sleep.  About an hour later, Clyde relocated and rested on John's arm.  After another nap, Clyde crawled into the groove of John Thomas's thighs and rested for quite some time.  John Thomas made the blankets into a cave and Clyde seemed rather content to look out from his "under the covers' created cave.  After several hours, John Thomas took Clyde back to his terrarium.  Clyde did not want to let go.  Carefully, John Thomas unpried his claws from his shirt and placed Clyde back in his glass home.  He turned the heat lamp on secured the cage.  John Thomas told Donnie that he would be very happy to love and care for Clyde.  Donnie smiled.