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• I'm glad to read that the treatment is helping, and that you are getting in some travel. I have been going through some of the paper that survived my move to a retirement community. It includes letters I only read when I consider throwing things out. Maybe it's time... Good that you have adequate medical insurance, at least the ACA is there if you run into problems with now having a pre-existing condition. Your experience does point up the idiocy of the current US system. How can you be an "informed consumer" when you are in an emergency room? And how could a hospital give you a quote when the final bill will be a compendium of maybe hundreds of discrete items? It's infuriating to think of how much bureaucracy lies behind that bill, all of which inflates medical costs. The bill will in any case not be paid in full, at least by those with insurance.

  Post: Turned Upside Down

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• The flip side of suggesting that a good attitude and plenty of friends will help someone "beat" cancer is that it suggests that someone who succumbs to the disease was insufficiently cheerful and lacked friends. Is that really what you want to convey?

  Post: Turned Upside Down

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• Yes, of course. My day pack has two outside pockets. I use one for a refillable water bottle and the other for a collapsible umbrella. If I'm in a country where I have to buy bottled water, at least I can buy bigger bottles and transfer it. I seem to remember that Russian trains also had hot water, maybe even tea.

  Post: A clarification of the bottled water post

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• I have the same problem. My voice sounds normal to me, but is too quiet for others. Presumably it's because the sound goes directly to my hearing aids.

  Post: Two Innovations That Can Improve Your Health by Dennis Friedman

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• My current hearing aids also came from Costco, and I recommend them. This pair supports Bluetooth, meaning the sound from my phone and my iPad goes directly to my aids. I recently bought a new TV that also supports Bluetooth, but am waiting for an adapter to arrive at Costco before the TV will connect to my aids.

  Post: Two Innovations That Can Improve Your Health by Dennis Friedman

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• The only chaos I know about is the aftermath of Helene, and both federal and state governments have rushed assistance to the affected areas. As soon as the state governors asked for federal disaster declarations, they were issued. Another 1,000 federal troops have just been sent to the NC mountains.

  Post: Stay Informed by Marjorie Kondrack

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• I wear my current hearing aids from the time I get dressed in the morning until I go to bed at night, so AirPods wouldn't be much use to me. I only wore the first set when I went out, but they didn't work very well.

  Post: Two Innovations That Can Improve Your Health by Dennis Friedman

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• I use Cologuard instead of colonoscopy, but I'd be willing to try a blood test instead. This is the only country that uses colonoscopy as the first line of defense against colon cancer, probably because it's so profitable. I wear hearing aids. This is my second set, and neither have been much good at blocking background noise. I suspect AirPods will be no better. In any case, I have low as well as high frequency hearing loss and I need an audiologist to program my aids.

  Post: Two Innovations That Can Improve Your Health by Dennis Friedman

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• I don't spend time on social media (unless you count HumbleDollar and Fodors). I'm sure refraining is good for my blood pressure and my temper - you should try it.

  Post: The retirement scam – please don’t call this a rant🥲

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• A lot of bottled water is actually tap water. It appears Poland Spring isn't tap water, but most of it isn't from Poland, Maine, either. Reading this, you might be better off with tap water. And if you are going to boil it, why would you not use tap water?

  Post: Truth is Often Stranger Than Fiction

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024