Journal
Harri’s journal
Rugby knees and a new relationship with protein.
Just Wednesdays
week 83content energy 21 reply
Notes for the week. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, coaching, lifting. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Two years. My only news…
Come back in a year
week 62pleased energy 41 reply
Notes for the week. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference in a fortnight was not subtle. Improved. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment,…
Laces
week 39grateful energy 54 replies
Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Coached a full training session without sitting down. Got down on the floor and…
An hour on the floor
week 34pleased energy 41 reply
Notes for the week. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at…
Two lengths, badly
week 33quietly delighted energy 21 reply
Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me.…
Sunday lunch
week 33warm energy 51 reply
Recording this for the record. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat…
Quiet
week 32fine energy 23 replies
Notes for 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 thing. An…
Somebody new
week 31warm energy 24 replies
Recording this for the record. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight, terrified,…
Paired
week 30held energy 44 replies
Recording this for the record. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Nobody has ever…
She stopped the room
week 29warm energy 54 replies
Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and…
The question I had been avoiding
week 28brisk energy 5
Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that…
A plain question
week 27steady energy 53 replies
Recording this for the record. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. I have found five things I can get down when…
A locum
week 26brisk energy 12 replies
Notes for the week. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
week 25held energy 24 replies
Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable…
Steady
week 25fine energy 23 replies
An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal…
Grip
week 24steady energy 41 reply
Recording this for the record. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Walked instead of the…
Fewer, heavier
week 23tired but good energy 32 replies
Notes for the week. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere…
Two lines a day
week 22organised energy 5
Notes for the week. 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. Tested…
Back without making it up
week 22tired but good energy 44 replies
Notes for the week. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Kept two sessions a week through a…
Before nine
week 22steady energy 53 replies
Notes for 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. Spread it…