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Abel’s journal

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46 entries from 17 Feb 2025 to 6 Apr 2026 · Addis Ababa, ET

  • Stayed for the company

    Monday 24 Mar 2025week 6warm energy 34 replies

    The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Went for the practical…

  • Nothing to report

    Sunday 16 Mar 2025week 4flat energy 51 reply

    A brief account of the week. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole…

  • A different shape

    Tuesday 11 Mar 2025week 4tired energy 24 replies

    The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten…

  • Protein first

    Monday 3 Mar 2025week 3steady energy 53 replies

    A brief account of the week. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own. Was…

  • I have started

    Wednesday 26 Feb 2025week 2wired energy 23 replies

    The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop reading it. Day one.…

  • Beginning, badly

    Monday 17 Feb 2025week 1nervous energy 13 replies

    A brief account of the week. The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the bits I remember and I…