The health of the mailing list

We've already gotten four emails of comment on Chunga 12, including a surprise letter from Mike Glicksohn. He had said he was putting fanac on hold again while he dealt with cancer that has spread from a ureter to, I believe, the bladder. We managed to jolt him into action, however, partly by calling him an American. Ha! The greatest insult these days. He reports that he had another biopsy recently but hadn't gotten the results back when he wrote the letter. Hope it's good news.

But my thoughts are also with rich brown, who was hospitalized on Memorial Day and has been seriously ill from a variety of things and continues to get worse. The latest news from his daughter, posted to a list yesterday, is very bad. He had gone into respiratory failure and came close to cardiac arrest. His kidneys were also on the verge of failure. Hang in there, rich, or go in peace if that's what needs to happen.

rich has died

Just got word from Ted White that rich brown died this afternoon at 1pm. It seemed almost inevitable after the previous message from rich's daughter, but there was still hope while he clung to life. Farewell, Dr. Gafia, you were a force to be reckoned with, and a greater Trufan than I.