SHALL WE begin?

After the big birthday party on Sunday May 25th, and the attendant hangover on May 26th, I started looking at the Wegovy package. Four little pens. Each one contains a week’s worth of liquid miracle. I guess I was waiting for the perfect moment to start. The idea of poking myself with a needle, and the larger idea of embarking on whatever this journey was going to be was giving me pause…….

Thursday May 29, 2025 10am Central Time

You take the cap off and push the rubber end cap against your skin. As you push the little needle pokes you, there is a click sound and in a small window you watch a yellow line move toward you as the medication flows into your body. Another click tells you it is done as the yellow line stops moving. Super easy, not at all painful. The anticipation of pain is 142% worse than the actual pinch. You put the cap back on and toss the used pen. Its life is over, like a butterfly that came and brought you a tiny upcoming marvel and dies.