I’m quite touched. Sincerely, thank you.
It’s not cancer, far as we know. It’s a circulatory problem that’s lead to necrosis (which is -really- unpleasant, his feet look like Ranulph Fiennes’). He’s had a toe amputated and a few other patches cut away, and he’s had a femural artery bypass to get some blood flowing. He’s scheduled to have the same done to the other leg at some point, and (unrelated?) he apparently also has a hernia which will need to be operated on.
More concerning though is that he seems to have lost his mind. It’s like Alzheimer’s or dementia, except it came on all at once like throwing a switch. It’s classic sepsis symptoms, except that they can’t find any trace of systematic infection and every test so far has come back clear. So it’s all very odd.
So yeah. It’s all been a bit stressful of late. MF, you have my sympathies, that all sounds horribly familiar.