Mayor Rob Ford will spend Thanksgiving weekend in hospital, where he’s receiving his second round of chemotherapy.

Brother Doug Ford, who is running to replace the mayor in the October 27 election, said Rob has lost the “majority of his hair,” but remains in good spirits and is returning residents’ phone calls from his hospital bed.

Rob Ford was diagnosed in mid-September with a rare form of pleomorphic liposarcoma, after doctors found a cancerous tumour in his abdomen.