sorry I missed your call

JE,

--Last week was misery...On Tuesday, Katinka's' younger brother, Jonathan Matson, was planning on flying in from Boston and having dinner with her. After several emails back and forth in the morning, he wrote to say he was packed and ready to leave the house but he had been fighting a stomach bug, so he had decided it was best to postpone and go to bed. He was fine at 6pm when his wife (a Mass General health professional) came home. She brought him a coke, went downstairs to make dinner. Half an hour later she went upstairs to check on him. He had died. We got the news at 9pm on a phone call from someone we hadn't talked to in 20 years" "Jonathan Matson has died" was impossible to process. Katinka is still was distraught and, just coming out of shock.

--And...this, from my older brother Philip ("Distinguished NASA Physcist" awardee), who had prostate surgery about 25 years, and got lucky be living in Raliegh-Durham, near Duke Medical Center which is tops. They've kept him alive and it's finally caught up to him:

"I have run out of standard treatments. Chemo is getting less effective with increasing side effects. There is a new drug Keytruda it has been approved for some cancers but is still experimental for prostate cancer. https://prostatecancernewstoday.com/pembrolizumab-immune-therapy-help-men-prostate-cancer/. I have been approved to get Keytruda and will start on Thursday."

--Finally, did I ever tell you about the Biosphere crowd? Absolutely nutty cult I represented in the early 90s. (Although individually the people were sometimes fun). My friend Roy Walford, the doctor inside the Biosphere, eventually died because of a condition he developed while inside. I kept sending writers down there to work with them and they would inevitably sneak away in the dead of night. I had to sell their book three times, each time for a fractions of the previous advance which started in 7 figures. Turns out Bannon took over as CEO of the place in 1993 so we may have overlapped. See:
Steve Bannon Was Once Hired to Manage an Artificial world of People Living Under Glass (Before the Trump Campaign) - http://slate.me/2keSDUn

In the office this afternoon and after 10:30am tomorrow.

JB
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