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Gwenda’s journal

November 2024

6 entries this month.

  • A different shape

    Thursday 28 Nov 2024week 15tired energy 24 replies

    Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning…

  • Two lines a day

    Friday 22 Nov 2024week 15organised 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…

  • Back without making it up

    Sunday 17 Nov 2024week 14tired but good energy 32 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. Walked…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Thursday 14 Nov 2024week 13sore energy 43 replies

    The burping. Nobody mentions the burping. It is not in any leaflet and it is genuinely one of the odder experiences of my adult life. A rough month. The nausea has a shape to…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 10 Nov 2024week 13steady energy 53 replies

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of…

  • Dreams

    Saturday 2 Nov 2024week 12foggy energy 24 replies

    This week: Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the…

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