Jamie Thingelstad

View from the upper seat in the NorthUp Sauna while the fire is getting started. The translucent walls make it very bright and warm inside — it was 70 °F from the sun before I started the fire. Added a hygrometer, a second sand timer, and trying Eucalyptus Sauna Scent for the first time.

Arrived at the cabin tonight and were greeted with a two-foot-high snow plow line to shovel through. Cleared enough to barrel through.

Took my first 0.25 mg dose of semaglutide. Hoping for minimal side effects. Got it from Fairview Compounding. No injector so had to do the shot on my own which was easy once I did it. 💉

I’ve been exploring ways to get semaglutide for myself. This update from today’s Economist changes the equation a lot!

Novo Nordisk slashed the monthly cost of Wegovy, its weight-loss injection, from more than $1,300 to $499 for American patients not paying for it through health insurance. Discounted jabs will be sold directly to them through the firm’s own online pharmacy. Competition between weight-loss drugmakersis heating up; last week Eli Lilly reduced the price of some of its Zepbound injections.

I tried getting Wegovy directly and paying out of pocket and the price was crazy of course. I ended up getting a prescription from a reputable compounding pharmacy for just $285. However you then have to administer the injection yourself, with no injector. At this new price it is about a $200 premium for the Wegovy brand and to get it in an injector.

Finbarr Clancy of The High Kings with an incredible performance of “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”.

and when I awoke in my hospital bed
and saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
never knew there were worst things than dying

Wow. 😢

Morning sauna session. 🔥