Dear Cyndy,

By this time, you're probably on your way to the ophthalmologists.
My thoughts and wishes accompany you. As for my own most recent 
encounter with the healing profession(s), it's my predeliction for
raw history - wie es eigentlich gewesen -  that has me forward to
you the pertinent e-mails. I hope my directness doesn't strike you
as indiscretion. Perhaps because the abscess has disappeared, I 
am now vaguely pre-occupied trying to assess what economists call
the shadow price, which in this instance is negative, i.e., how much
the orthodontists would have to offer to pay me in order that I should
permit them to spend six of my remaining months pretending to restore
teeth that have been forever lost....

I'll interrupt now to explore whether there's anything in my mind
to add to Chapter 50. Perhaps more later. With much concealed affection,

Jochen