The West Hampstead tube station has a great Art Deco waiting room on the platform, with a curved wall of glass and a bench. I almost never see anyone use it, but I suppose when the weather's really bad it might come in handy. Here's a picture of it from the outside.
The weather isn't great at the moment, but just because of the cold. It's 23º F out there now (-5º C) and the warmest it got yesterday was one degree above freezing. Same thing today. I despair for the avocado, even with its little warming light bulb. Forty eight hours of basically freezing and subfreezing temperatures is going to be hard for it to survive, I think. But it was inevitable we'd get to this point -- a tree can only live indoors for so long. Eventually it had to face the the wrath of nature.
I met with my gastroenterologist yesterday and he said the tests he gave me last fall were all clear. My breath test showed slightly elevated levels of methane, which I also had the last time I took that test. He attributed it to my mostly vegetarian diet, and eating lots of plant matter. Even though I don't have "bacterial overgrowth" (whatever that is) he wants to prescribe an antibiotic to knock back the bacteria in my gut. I'm not convinced that's a good idea and I'm not sure I'm going to take it, but I might try a probiotic of some sort.
We're going to repeat the calprotectin test to see if it's still high. If that turns out to be the case, or if it's gone higher, he said we might do another colonoscopy. The fun never ends!
This was the morning's interesting fashion sighting on the tube. Do you think they're fake? I do.
The picture of the shoe reminds me that my daughter recently sent me pictures of shoes worn by tube passengers in London. When she was there. Apparently there is a thing with shoes there. I hope all your tests come out fine.
ReplyDeleteMy friends and I used that waiting room some years ago after a visit to Kew Gardens, where we had got soaked in the rain that was still falling! We had just discovered that the trains were not going past St. Albans. ( we needed the next stop 5 miles further on !) Luckily between the 8 of us we had 2 husbands at home who could come and get us from St Albans.
ReplyDeleteMy window thermometer read -6c at 8am . Everything outside is white.!
Definitely fake!
ReplyDeleteI am not sure that antibiotics are a good thing for your gut. Trust your own judgement and intuition.
Nope! They look like real shoes to me. As for "wrath" (line 8), I would have instead used "vicissitudes"... I'm just sayin'!
ReplyDeleteThe West Hampstead Station waiting room is so nice.
ReplyDeleteWould antibiotic plus probiotic equal zero effect? Unless you have a bacterial infection, why would you need an antibiotic?