Birdie’s journal
September 2025
4 entries this month.
She noticed first
week 64held energy 14 replies
Evening. 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 had a fine one,…
She stopped the room
week 63warm energy 14 replies
Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual…
Steady
week 61steady energy 51 reply
No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. I nearly did not write this week because…
Iron and B12
week 61relieved energy 3
Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Fine. A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother,…