BROTHER-IN-LAW UPDATE: Various people have asked how my brother-in-law is doing and the answer is, well and not well. He’s been doing radiation treatments and tolerating them fairly decently. The downside is that, after much back-and-forth, the oncologists at Vanderbilt have decided that he should have chemo starting after the radiation, which is news nobody wanted to hear.

Thanks to my earlier bleg, my sister got in touch with a number of first-rate oncologists who specialize in this very rare cancer. They were quite helpful, but, alas, nobody knows how to just make it go away.