Axel has his hearing back, at least with his hearing aid on. It was something mechanical in the fancy hearing aid (too fancy for dusty Kabul no doubt) and it is fixed now; he was sent home with a spare of whatever was broken.
These are the days of tune-ups and checkups for our bodies. They need this. Yesterday I had a vertigo attack again, a mild one but still. I took the pill they gave me at the George Washington Hospital emergency room and was drowsy most of the rest of the day. It’s still the same diagnosis, mild positional vertigo. Today teeth and shoulder doctors are on the menu as well as prescription refills.
We had bad Mexican food for lunch which was amply compensated for by a superb Malaysian dinner at Sook and Roger’s house with our closest friends.
The rest of the day was too much about arranging our return trip to Kabul and back in August, and taxes, how to limit the potentially enormous tax bite out of our earnings while in Kabul. It is all very complicated but our tax advisor thinks we are on the right track.
And in the meantime it is wet and cold most of the time. I am starting to look forward to my trip to Albuquerque tomorrow. There the temperature is more like Kabul’s, in the 90s. I have the right clothes for that; better than that as I don’t have to cover myself from head to toe in cloth. Sook had gone to Saudi Arabia and demonstrated her head to toe outfit which, we decided, made her look like a Chinese nun. At least in Kabul I don’t quite have to wrap myself up like that.
With the rain clouds gone, today is the first day that I am hearing and seeing the small planes from the Beverly Flight School overhead. I had some hope I would be flying but that is beginning to be rather unlikely with the days to departure dwindling rapidly. Flying will simply have to remain on hold for now.
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