Where did you find help this month?

A member here messaged to ask if I was all right because my journal had gone quiet. I had not realised anyone would notice.

My son, who is fourteen and made me a cup of tea without being asked.

My buddy. Four lines on a Sunday night and it is quietly the most reliable thing in my week.

The union rep who sorted out fridge access at work in two emails.

The woman at the chemist counter, who spent ten minutes with me for nothing.

The practice nurse who ran the bloods rather than telling me to take a supplement.

My buddy. Four lines on a Sunday night and it is quietly the most reliable thing in my week.

My sister, who has said nothing about any of it and I have decided that is her being kind.

A friend I had not seen in a year who did not comment on anything at all.

My son, who is fourteen and made me a cup of tea without being asked.

Somebody I look after was kind to me, which is the wrong way round and I noticed.

Nobody in particular and everybody a bit. It has been an all right week for people.

The facilitator who stopped a room of six people talking at once and asked me how I actually was.