OMG thankyou for that link! And I feel you should absolutely do a spreadsheet. Mmm, statistics.

I think I am not expressing myself very well about the relapse issue! I am kind of comparing Archie's reaction to myself and people I know dealing with similar-albeit-not-identical stuff in real life, and in real life I would say there was more frustration/irritation - obviously when you care about someone you try not to take it out on them, since it's not their fault or choice, but it struck me as Archie rolling with it pretty well, especially given that in that period, Archie wouldn't necessarily have had the assumption that it wasn't Wolfe's fault/choice to help in that respect. I was thinking that I wouldn't have been surprised if Archie had been a bit more actively annoyed, and specifically annoyed at Wolfe himself - as opposed to irritated by the change in plans a relapse involves, which as you say is present.

And heh, yeah, Archie being like "can't we catch a criminal now? now? no? how about now?" is definitely more likely to help Wolfe than someone being all sympathetic. I am imagining some well-meaning nurse trying to get him to discuss it or something and Wolfe being all "Get this crazy person out of my house! Archie!"