Jim,
I had been missing John's contributions for a while before asking you about his welfare. Your reference to some tools he made for you told me you had a personal relationship with him, prompting me to ask you. i sure wish there was some way to ease the burden on John, but I'm a long way from Georgia and having my own struggle with chemotherapy these days. Chemo seems to be doing what is expected of it and I'm improving, but still have a couple of months of treatment left.
After a while you get to feeling like you know somebody you've only "met" on Beemaster and you really do empathize with their losses and take pleasure in hearing of the good things they experience. That's community, I guess.
Good luck to all.
Gary