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  • A new bin and a plan

    Ruthie18 Jan 2025organised energy 4

    A brief account of the week. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Two lines a…

  • Quiet

    Sara18 Jan 2025flat energy 5turning point

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Tam18 Jan 2025organised energy 1

    Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually…

  • An unremarkable week

    Thea18 Jan 2025flat energy 4

    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. Quiet. Injection…

  • A rough few days

    Wystan18 Jan 2025sore energy 2

    A gentle week, mostly. Sore at the injection site for about ten days, a small firm lump under the skin. The pharmacist looked at it, was unbothered, and told me to…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Anna17 Jan 2025grateful energy 5

    Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Sat on the floor and played for an…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Poppy17 Jan 2025held energy 3

    Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the…

  • Somebody new

    Rohan17 Jan 2025warm energy 4

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at…

  • Steady

    Aria17 Jan 2025fine energy 3

    Steady. That is the whole entry. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's…

  • Sunday lunch

    Bo17 Jan 2025awkward energy 1

    Short one tonight. 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 what…

  • She stopped the room

    Bridie17 Jan 2025warm energy 3

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Gigi17 Jan 2025held energy 5

    Evening. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. My buddy noticed something in my…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Ray17 Jan 2025held energy 1

    Right. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it…

  • Flat, whole night

    Hedda17 Jan 2025grateful energy 2

    Notes for the week. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I…

  • Slept through

    Holly17 Jan 2025foggy energy 1

    Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Kez17 Jan 2025frustrated energy 2

    Quickly, before bed. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced one…

  • Steady

    Lark17 Jan 2025steady energy 2

    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 nearly did not write this week…

  • I nearly did not write

    Linnet17 Jan 2025fine energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Marit17 Jan 2025pleased energy 3

    Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Bike tomorrow.

  • An unremarkable week

    Ossian17 Jan 2025steady energy 5

    Short one tonight. 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…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Ottoline17 Jan 2025held energy 4

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before.…

  • Come back in a year

    Ravi17 Jan 2025pleased energy 1turning point

    Recording this for the record. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. A1c down for the first time in four years.…

  • Nothing

    Sam17 Jan 2025frayed energy 2

    Notes for the week. Three months of no change and my blood pressure has come down anyway. Two things can be true at once and I keep having to relearn that. Ada said…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Rowan16 Jan 2025sore energy 2turning point

    Headache for three days running. It turned out I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday. Water, then a slow improvement, then feeling faintly stupid. A bad fortnight…