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  • She noticed first

    Clemmie30 Dec 2024held energy 5

    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. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five…

  • Laces

    Duncan30 Dec 2024pleased energy 1

    Three things this week. 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. Tied my own…

  • An unremarkable week

    Ike30 Dec 2024fine 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…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Marnie30 Dec 2024tired but good energy 1

    Short one tonight. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Eight minutes and a chair.…

  • Stayed for the company

    Ottoline30 Dec 2024warm energy 3

    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…

  • Across the day

    Ravi30 Dec 2024steady energy 5

    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…

  • Starters as a main

    Rilla30 Dec 2024warm energy 1

    Quick one. 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. Somebody asked what…

  • Where the pen lives

    Sam30 Dec 2024organised energy 4

    Recording this for the record. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Lucas29 Dec 2024tired but good energy 3

    Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Florrie29 Dec 2024organised energy 1

    New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four…

  • Grip

    Hattie29 Dec 2024tired but good energy 4

    Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole…

  • She read the diary

    Holly29 Dec 2024frustrated energy 5

    Late, and writing anyway. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced…

  • Into town and back

    Linnet29 Dec 2024quietly delighted energy 2

    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 the stairs at work twice without…

  • Nine minutes

    Mo29 Dec 2024frustrated energy 3

    Week in order: Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Left with a printout…

  • Into town and back

    Odile29 Dec 2024quietly delighted energy 4

    A brief account of the week. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up.…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Posy29 Dec 2024brisk energy 5

    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 avoiding for…

  • A rough few days

    Tarn29 Dec 2024sore energy 3

    Constipation, which I have avoided writing about for six weeks out of pure squeamishness. It is the thing making me most miserable and I have said nothing about it to…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Viv29 Dec 2024organised energy 3

    Well then. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that…

  • Two sessions

    Wystan29 Dec 2024tired but good energy 2

    A gentle week, mostly. 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 time. Walked…

  • The bad fortnight

    Anna28 Dec 2024flat energy 1

    A brief account of the week. A rough few days. Not dangerous, just relentlessly unpleasant, the kind of unwell where you cannot read and cannot sleep and cannot…

  • The limits of yoghurt

    Nell28 Dec 2024steady energy 1

    Short one tonight. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and…

  • Awake at four

    Dev28 Dec 2024tired energy 1

    Notes for the week. 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 can find anything…

  • My mother cooks

    Fen28 Dec 2024loved energy 4

    Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Harlan28 Dec 2024organised energy 2

    Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is the entire system and it has twice changed a clinical decision. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad…