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  • Into town and back

    Flossie1 Jan 2025grateful energy 4

    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. Got down on the floor and back up…

  • Nothing to report

    Gwenda1 Jan 2025steady energy 3

    This week: 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 boring weeks. Quiet.…

  • Before nine

    Harri1 Jan 2025practical energy 5

    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…

  • Grip

    Lu1 Jan 2025tired but good energy 3

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in…

  • Dreams

    Martha1 Jan 2025foggy energy 2

    A brief account of the week. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved.…

  • I nearly did not write

    Moss1 Jan 2025fine energy 2

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it.…

  • The list on the fridge

    Sadie1 Jan 2025steady energy 3

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Solomon1 Jan 2025frustrated energy 2

    Week in order: A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Asked the question I had been…

  • Quiet

    Tilda1 Jan 2025fine energy 5

    Week in order: 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…

  • Stayed for the company

    Mina31 Dec 2024warm energy 5

    Short one tonight. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight, terrified,…

  • Awake at four

    Bodhi31 Dec 2024tired energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Slept through. Whole night, no…

  • Stayed for the company

    Brody31 Dec 2024warm energy 4

    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. Somebody new…

  • Two sessions

    Bunny31 Dec 2024tired but good energy 4

    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…

  • Come back in a year

    Carl31 Dec 2024pleased energy 2

    This week: Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The…

  • Off the floor

    Cass31 Dec 2024pleased energy 2

    Notes for the week. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. 0600 tomorrow.

  • Somebody new

    Huw31 Dec 2024warm energy 4

    This week: 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. Went for the practical…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Kai31 Dec 2024held energy 1

    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…

  • Grip

    Lark31 Dec 2024tired but good energy 1

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every…

  • Flat, whole night

    Maeve31 Dec 2024grateful energy 4

    Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Mark31 Dec 2024frustrated energy 2

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Left with a printout I could not read…

  • Nothing to report

    Moray31 Dec 2024fine energy 5

    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…

  • Somebody new

    Sorrel31 Dec 2024warm energy 3

    This week: 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. Went for the practical…

  • Beginning, badly

    Bram30 Dec 2024wired energy 4turning point

    I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight…

  • Beginning, badly

    Cato30 Dec 2024hopeful energy 4

    This week: The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop…