Come back in a year

Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me.

Learned to read a thyroid panel properly.

A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both.

Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at.

Bloods in six weeks.