Quick catch up

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The bathroom has tiles! We can use it again, and the bathroom pod on the drive went back. I got a very entertaining graph of the temperature in the pod for most of the time it was there: ranging from 14 degrees max to about minus 2.5 degrees at a minimum. (There was actual ice on the floor inside the pod one morning, from the drips from the shower door being left open). There's some issues with the coloured grout having made everything BLUE, but most of it has come off again. We're just waiting on getting the bath resurfaced (on the 27th) and then I'll get some photos. It's lovely to have the house back together again! Insurance company agreed to pay for the extra electricity and the bath re-enamelling, which is good.

My iron levels are still a bit on the low side, so we're testing again at the end of February, and I'm taking over-the-counter iron supplements in the meantime. They're "gentle" ones, so I'm not getting such tar-like poo as with the stronger prescription ones. I've persuaded the GP to do another HbA1c test at the same time because...

The Wegovy prescription seems to be doing its job. My appetite is reduced a little, but mostly it's just making it possible to do the "eat less, move more" advice without wanting to rip my own arms off because I'm thinking about food all the time. (I don't actually take their advice move more, I already move enough most of the time, but we'll not quibble too much). Weight is coming off steadily, about the same rate as when I was just dieting without the drugs: but without the constant surveillance mode being needed. And without being ready to *stop* after 12 weeks. I'm a couple of kilos away from being only officially "overweight" rather than obese. As a result it seems like a good idea to check my blood glucose control (HbA1c gives an idea of the "average" blood sugar levels over the last 3 months) and see whether I need to be taking a high dose of Metformin as *well* as the weight-loss drug which also treats diabetes.