Worries relieved

My New York friend's out of hospital, and while not completely better, certainly sounds alright. Nevertheless, when he tells me that he was brought in because of a respiratory failure caused by painkillers - which he takes because of a rather bad back pain that nobody can explain the cause of (I myself am guessing it has to do with the malignant growth in his back but anyway) - it is a shocking revelation.

However, we've just spent some time talking, and he sounds like his old self. I am very relieved.