We were a little late getting out of Vegas on Thursday evening, which normally wouldn't be a problem, the lab stays open until 9:00 pm. Well, we left town and headed up, somewhere around the Moapa Tribal truck stop the lights on the dashboard started coming on starting with the battery light. I figured that OK, the car is 3 1/2 years old, it's summer, we need a battery, so we started calling and found that the AutoZone in Mesquite had what we needed, so we limped into Mesquite and with the help of a nice kid at the store got the battery, got it changed and got on our way to make it to the labs with plenty of time to spare.
We thought that was the end of the problems, Bruce had a charger at the shop which he brought over to the house and we charged the new battery all night to make sure everything would be good. Well, that was the theory anyway. We got up Friday morning, Patty had to work at Smith's so I hauled her over there to work and went to my treatment, I was starting to get the idea that something else was happening because the batter light came back on, so we called Hyundai and got an appointment to have it looked at after lunch.
Treatment itself went pretty well, but I guess that I'm getting more anemic so they gave me some new medicine to boost me up rather than thinking about a transfusion. It all went well, but it has a side effect - it gets into the bones and has some pain associated with the after effects. They gave me medicine, but I should have taken it sooner, made it through, but wasn't much company for Patty for the rest of the day.
So, getting back to the car, we got some lunch and then went to Hyundai to have them look at it. They got it in pretty quick, and they found that the Alternator had burnt out - which happens so rarely, they didn't have a new one in stock, so they rented us a car to bring back to Vegas and the new part won't be in until at least next Tuesday, which also means that our week off, won't really be a total week off when we have to go up to get the Hyundai back. That will help the treatments, because they wanted the shots to be done once a week for 4 weeks - so this will work out.
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