Thank you for the recs - I've not had time to look at Yuletide at all yet, but your dSSS story was a lot of fun.

Really sorry to hear about your sister -- sending you all the hugs.

(On a side note, the way oncologists (and society and the media in general!) tend to push active treatments at the expense of palliative care, positioning the former as bravely fighting and the latter as giving in, is so irritating and counterproductive. But that's a whole other rant...)