Aww, it's understandable that you want to give him the best chance possible to improve and recover.
Awesome, season 5! A shame your friend says it goes downhill from there but seeing as it's now currently almost at the same length run as Smallville, it's bound to have some downhill moments.
Anyways, sorry for being AWOL these last couple of days, there's been some stuff going on that has been a little hard to get my head round, even though I kinda knew it was going to happen eventually.