Mental wishes out to Martin for recovery....Man of many friends.

Today I need to buy a bunch of notebooks, because I find I have to keep a diary of my friend Mike’s health and … general wellness, I suppose, along with other things I want to keep track of. His life has always been a group project, so I'm going to just write down things he reports. He called me the other night in a panic, because he had taken a bunch of vitamin powders and pills he seems to collect, and had gotten a reaction. We went through exactly what they were, and identified too much niacin as the culprit. The rash and sunburn flush was actually fading about an hour later, so he was fine. I think when one is alone and all your friends are out of town, fears can hit you so much more easily. Here I am more than a continent away from him, but everyone connected to you — online or not — matters.