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  • Sunday night, four lines

    Bram7 Feb 2025held energy 3

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and…

  • Where the pen lives

    Col7 Feb 2025organised energy 2

    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. Small logistics win:…

  • Steady

    Dev7 Feb 2025flat energy 5

    Notes for the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been…

  • She read the diary

    Dot7 Feb 2025frustrated energy 3

    Well then. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Asked the question I had…

  • My mother cooks

    Ephraim7 Feb 2025awkward energy 4turning point

    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. Shabbat meals with a…

  • Two sessions

    Florrie7 Feb 2025tired but good energy 4

    Evening. 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…

  • Circle tonight

    Gil7 Feb 2025warm energy 2turning point

    Recording this for the record. 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…

  • Somebody new

    Gwenda7 Feb 2025warm energy 4

    Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the…

  • She caught it

    Ike7 Feb 2025rattled energy 3

    This week: Switching, and the concentration is not the same. I nearly worked from the old arithmetic out of pure habit. Different device, different numbers, same…

  • Walking

    Moray7 Feb 2025tired but good energy 3

    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…

  • Stayed for the company

    Norah7 Feb 2025warm energy 5turning point

    Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Shift-workers circle became the fixed point. Went for…

  • An hour on the floor

    Odile7 Feb 2025pleased energy 1

    Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Up…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Posy7 Feb 2025pleased energy 1turning point

    This week: Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Kneeled to plant bulbs and got up unaided. Got down on the floor…

  • She reduced it

    Prue7 Feb 2025frustrated energy 5

    She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried…

  • Sunday lunch

    Tam7 Feb 2025awkward energy 5

    A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday lunch at my…

  • A plain question

    Tobias7 Feb 2025steady energy 4

    Recording this for the record. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my…

  • Circle tonight

    Anna6 Feb 2025warm energy 5

    Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the…

  • Both bags, one go

    Poppy6 Feb 2025pleased energy 5

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not…

  • The list on the fridge

    Aleks6 Feb 2025steady energy 3

    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. Spread it…

  • Off the floor

    Annika6 Feb 2025grateful energy 3turning point

    Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Slept through the night without…

  • Nothing to report

    Ash6 Feb 2025flat energy 1

    Right. 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. Nothing to report.…

  • A different shape

    Bay6 Feb 2025tired energy 2

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Vivid dreams,…

  • A rough few days

    Brody6 Feb 2025sore energy 5turning point

    This week: 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…

  • Dreams

    Bruno6 Feb 2025foggy energy 3

    Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I…