Journal
Nell’s journal
Beekeeper. Very interested in eating enough.
She stopped the room
week 25warm energy 54 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…
Anchored to the shifts
week 22organised energy 1
Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. New sharps bin, and a plan for…
Two lines a day
week 19organised energy 5
A quiet week. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with…
A new bin and a plan
week 19organised energy 4
Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Built a floor: three things she always…
Dreams
week 16rested energy 24 replies
Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Slept…
The limits of yoghurt
week 13steady energy 13 replies
Short one tonight. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits…
A plain question
week 10practical energy 14 replies
A quiet week. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Undereating badly without noticing, caught by her practice nurse. I have found…
Two sessions
week 10tired but good energy 22 replies
Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is annoyingly right. Eight…
Walking
week 7tired but good energy 12 replies
Late, and writing anyway. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Grip strength has gone off and I…
The list on the fridge
week 4steady energy 23 replies
A quiet 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. Protein first,…
First dose, done
week 2nervous energy 54 replies
I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight seconds.…