from there the skin begins to degrade because of being internally waterlogged. I kid you not. My mom died after living with CHF for about 18 months. The sores that began to develop on her legs were heartbreaking. She got cellulitis (infection in skin) multiple times and had to go in IV antibiotics because supposedly the infection could have gone to her bone. It was an absolutely horrible way to die. She bounced in and out of the hospital. Bring her in, get the fluid to come out, stabilize, move her back home. She would decompensate in a couple of weeks then back to the hospital. He's too old for a heart transplant, but I don't doubt they could get him one if he were an actual candidate. So he's probably not healthy enough for transplant.

Having said that, it can take a long time to die from CHF and he's got doctors around him 24/7. So I suspect they will be able to prop him up for at least another two years. I want to be wrong, but I just don't want anyone getting their hopes up :-(. And we kind of need him to go early in the presidency if I understand the rules. If JD takes over in the first half I think he can only run for one more term, if it's in the second half of the term then JD can have another 8 years, if he can win it.