JUST GOT BACK from visiting my brother-in-law, who’s undergoing another round of chemo. He’s doing pretty well — his appetite’s good enough that he’s complaining about the hospital food, so we took him a pizza from the Mellow Mushroom — but the unpleasantness of the hospital setting just reminded me of this column from last year.

I’ve pretty much quit blogging family health developments, because I think it gets old fast. But they’re ongoing alas, on a number of fronts. If people have wondered about slower email response times or occasional interludes of light blogging, that’s usually the reason.