I wonder if that was the same "nervous tick" I developed just seconds after meeting DR MBarnum?
When you met DR MBarnum, your eyes lit up like a pinball machineon "tilt!" I noticed no ticks; you were too busy with the Russian hands and Roman fingers.
DR DerBrucer, I am sorry to hear about the chaos surrounding you at the present. I get the impression that no matter what good advice you give, it will be ignored, so I'd try to be the calm center and let the events play out around you. In families and deaths, it's always messy, I've come to believe, and your situation seems fraught. I wish you the best.