(Have always retained a high opinion of, not merely your Smarts but, the quite-rare capability for 'Scale and Relativity'), a koan which--if it needs to be explained--it's not worth the time to try.) [Truth], that rarity which some.. never experience even second-hand ..cannot be 'explained' to another either--add-to-list. (Recursion; it's Everywhere, innit?) Your posts often follow the mantra for Accurate-speaking: Say what you aim to tell. Tell it. Review what you said ..then STOP. Pure-Gold, that.

Thanks for a small Masterpiece, the courage to share it with (us-the-now-few) and the Wit to make every factoid self-evidently true. (Love your 'nic: were it apt?) Nah.. self-canceling via just (this among many) of your past posts--all of which I deemed pellucid in your methodology--no slightest pun on, 'well, you know meth******* ;^>.

[While tying-up a few loose ends too, in spirit of a nonpareil essay] and too: some of us may get rilly-Old sometime, so Lock-down means ..in Vino (et al) is indeed Veritas.
{Wayback} Was truly sorry that the accidental-fact of my "heavy-ion" irradiation lore, (the precision of the 'Bragg Peak' re what was thought to be relevant to your Brother's condition)--wouldn't apply. I guess as more info came to you.

[Relevant to moi more than you] was the Fact (to moi) that this near magickal means of minimizing the Gaussian-shape to a couple millimeters!--meant that many odd tumor placements could be erased forthwith--in areas where surgery etc. could not be done. The dis-US miserably ignored (that Physics, of which most MDs are as ignorant--as the masses are). Japan (last I checked) was the only Sane-place which grokked-to-fullness, designed much simpler Sources (than the pairing of two gigundo-accelerators, 'Super-Hilac + Bevatron'). Med needs are relatively low energy, etc. Have not lately followed-up re Results obtained there--too many Existential-distractions. It remains Maddening: that 'Science'-Itself as-humans-here 'practice it', so often: is as stubbornly effete--as the countless duels about Corporate religiosity-about-'religion'.

If that Probation 'Officer' has an iota of love for Truthiness-even (in her own mind+mind-set) she should Kiss Your Ass (any framing applies). Her contribution to the Overall /Regular clusterfuck so mimics the fact that Criminal Justice is an oxymoron--in most places--but in 'Murica as Pride Selves, daily acting-out that mondo-Quip of a revered Dean at Yale Law (Fred C. Rodell)
..the entire pseudo-science of the Law
which is Soo-Like the patently-false semantic tricks within most pontifications ..on any Econ-topic whatsoever blurted out. I wot. If she is ungrateful of this superbly Rational history then, as my Mater used to opine, "When you have said a person is ungrateful--you have said it all". You could then extirpate such a one from contact, happily(?) tl;dr then: re skit of two Shrinks passing on sidewalk: one says t'other: You're Fine. ... How am I?

What you have been Put-Through under the auspices of the dis-US's "Justice" fully-broken System ECHOES every tale from 'Iron Curtain', fiction or other failed-State Authoritarian de-humanized cess-pools. We (each) escape that fate--only by sheerest random-Chance. And all-along ---> Teachers Lied to us, inculcating this 'exceptional' façade about a State: historically! as viciously-corrupt as [pick the Worst yet heard]. That you are not a fucking basket-case over that lengthy insane-making-process ..speaks highly about Guts aka Determination-self-taught.

Hang in There! We who-are-about-to-die er, Salute. :-)