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  • A plain question

    Ambrose23 Feb 2025steady energy 2

    A brief account of the week. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Was undereating without realising. The…

  • Not writing about this would be dishonest

    Brody23 Feb 2025sore energy 3

    Reflux again. I slept propped up on three pillows and woke at two anyway. I have an appointment on Thursday and I am going to actually mention it this time rather…

  • Into town and back

    Bunny23 Feb 2025quietly delighted energy 2

    Evening. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Breakfast shift.

  • Six labelled boxes

    Cass23 Feb 2025organised energy 1

    Notes for the week. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. New sharps bin, and a plan for what…

  • Steady

    Cato23 Feb 2025steady energy 3

    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. An unremarkable week. Ate,…

  • What is your secret

    Ephraim23 Feb 2025awkward energy 3

    My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. Sunday lunch at my…

  • She noticed first

    Fen23 Feb 2025held energy 2

    This week: She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how I was…

  • A wedding

    Freya23 Feb 2025awkward energy 4

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of…

  • Dreams

    Gavin23 Feb 2025tired energy 2

    Short one tonight. 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…

  • Nine minutes

    Gwenda23 Feb 2025frustrated energy 3

    This week: Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven…

  • She stopped the room

    Kez23 Feb 2025warm energy 5turning point

    Quickly, before bed. 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.…

  • Sore and slow

    Oskar23 Feb 2025sore energy 1

    Very tired. Not the kind of tired a nap fixes. I slept nine hours and woke feeling as though I had been awake all night. Cramp in both calves in the night, twice this…

  • An unremarkable week

    Prue23 Feb 2025flat energy 5

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • Where the pen lives

    Sorrel23 Feb 2025pleased energy 3

    This week: Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested three cool bags…

  • Slept through

    Sonia23 Feb 2025rested energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Tavia23 Feb 2025tired but good energy 2

    Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just…

  • No news

    Tobias23 Feb 2025steady energy 3

    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. Steady. That is the whole entry.…

  • A locum

    Anna22 Feb 2025brisk energy 1

    Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. She reduced one of my other medications. I…

  • Circle tonight

    Bea22 Feb 2025warm energy 2

    Late, and writing anyway. 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…

  • Starters as a main

    Bertie22 Feb 2025warm energy 1

    Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Bruno22 Feb 2025organised energy 3

    Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date,…

  • Flat, whole night

    Carl22 Feb 2025grateful energy 4

    Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. That will do.

  • Steady

    Clemmie22 Feb 2025flat energy 2

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…

  • Sunday lunch

    Gil22 Feb 2025awkward energy 3

    Notes for the week. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no…