update

David is likely to welcome in the New Year at St. Vincent's, even though there had been talk of discharging him sooner.  He will probably stay at least through the weekend and perhaps longer as he finishes up his ECT treatment.  My perhaps over-ambitious estimations of his progress may have been due to seeing him in the evenings several days in a row--he tends to do much better in the evening, and as Mary and I discovered today, during the day he can be quite a bit foggier and doesn't seem ready for discharge.  By the way, Mary has been a dynamo, spending considerable time every day at David's apartment organizing and getting it shaped up for his eventual return, or whatever he decides.  Unfortunately her relatives on Long Island are demanding an appearance, so we won't be able to keep her to ourselves much longer, but it has been great to have her on this coast to lend support and dry wit.