Mina’s journal
August 2024
6 entries this month.
Across the day
week 12steady energy 43 replies
A quiet week. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer. Protein…
I nearly did not write
week 11fine energy 53 replies
Short one tonight. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Until Monday.
No news
week 10fine energy 13 replies
A quiet week. Steady. That is the whole entry. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Until Monday.
Unpleasant, not dangerous
week 9sore energy 1
Late, and writing anyway. The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the pattern it stopped…
The pattern of it
week 9sore energy 34 replies
Bad week and I am writing it down anyway, because a journal that only contains the good weeks would be a lie and no use to anybody reading it later. A hot Lisbon August and…
Paired
week 8held energy 54 replies
Late, and writing anyway. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I…