@St_Trousers Thanks. Last week was a bit rough; he had to go back to the doctor twice because a piece of sponge that was supposed to stay in his ear kept falling out, and because he developed a bit of an infection, but the word this week is that the sponge is no longer necessary, and the infection is responding well to antibiotics. He’s holding up like a trooper. We may not be completely out of the woods, but at the very least, the trees are thinning a great deal.