@Soupe du jour:

So sorry to read that your husband's friend is doing so poorly with COVID. Perhaps the fact that they keep sending him home from the hospital indicates that his physical health is not that bad? Perhaps it's mostly a mental issue that will pass? That's my guess anyways. Hate to think his hospital would turn away a genuinely gravely physically ill patient. And you've said yourself, different people have different pain thresholds. Yours is very high. Perhaps this man's is low and he is panicking over something not that dire. Anyway, hope the situation is resolved soon.

Today you say goodbye to your American psychiatrist of many years. It will be another sad moment. You've had a wonderful relationship with him tho and i'm sure you will remember each other fondly.

Ta!

Jane.