My lab results are not back as I write Friday’s blog Thursday afternoon so maybe on Monday, we’ll know how my Kt/V is doing.
Meanwhile, at 4:45 PM Wednesday I had an appointment with an audiologist to get my new VA-provided hearing aids. His storefront is located in Stephensville, some 49 miles away. About 20 miles from his office, traveling legally at 70 MPH (it is Texas people, we have reasonable speed limits) the right rear tire on our 2019 BMW X5 we were traveling in blew. Luckily, we have ran-flats on it, continued to our appointment at a maximum speed of 50, and returned home slowly and safely.
I now have a new set of hearing aids by a company named Starkey. So far so good. They have an AI function that cancels out background noise where it normally causes me real problems in picking out conversations. I seem to have a much greater clarity of sound reproduction also.
Meanwhile, this morning I went to our local tire barn, where for $1880.80 I have a new set of 275X45X20 Bridgestone tires on order for the X5. A couple of years ago the same tires would have been $800. When I was racing Porsches in the nineties a set cost less than $500 for racing tires. Who says prices haven’t gone up?
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