Bad things to healthy old people

[shootingstar]

But as you said, he has otherwise been healthy up to now -- hopefully that means fewer chances of complications with whatever course of treatment his doctors recommend.

I agree.
He is and generally always has been at right weight. Healthy diet, as you can imagine that has not succumbed to sugar, fat, etc.

Thx for kind thoughts so far.
Strange times. The bearer of the news by the way, is a sister-doctor. She herself is 5+ months pregnant. Yes, she's probably worried about H1N1, regardless of whatever vaccination on top of all this and being info. conduit to rest of family.

It's really complicated..father, is also de facto family mediator-language interpreter for mother who speaks primarily only Chinese. (Assimilation to English language is terribly high price, more than unilingual speakers can even imagine.)

Things can get pretty complicated suddenly. So different from 2 months ago when I last visited everyone...happy and seemingly healthy.