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  • Quiet

    Wilf27 Dec 2024flat energy 2

    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. No news. The…

  • Somebody new

    Mina26 Dec 2024warm energy 5

    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 tonight. Eight of us, an…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Bay26 Dec 2024organised energy 1

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about…

  • No mask

    Bea26 Dec 2024rested energy 3

    Short one tonight. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not…

  • No news

    Bel26 Dec 2024fine energy 1

    Steady. That is the whole entry. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Better tomorrow, probably.

  • What is your secret

    Bertie26 Dec 2024warm energy 4

    A brief account of the week. 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,…

  • What is your secret

    Birdie26 Dec 2024loved energy 4

    Evening. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…

  • Steady

    Bly26 Dec 2024steady energy 1

    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…

  • Protein first

    Col26 Dec 2024steady energy 1

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt,…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Freya26 Dec 2024brisk energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. 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. She reduced one of my…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Gus26 Dec 2024brisk energy 5

    Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. She reduced one of my other…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Ives26 Dec 2024organised energy 2

    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 is the entire system and it…

  • Somebody new

    Juno26 Dec 2024warm energy 5

    Well then. 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 tonight. Eight of…

  • Somebody new

    Rafe26 Dec 2024warm energy 1

    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. The facilitator stopped the room…

  • An unremarkable week

    Sonia26 Dec 2024fine energy 4

    A gentle week, mostly. 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…

  • A locum

    Tulla26 Dec 2024heard energy 3

    This week: 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…

  • The list on the fridge

    Rohan25 Dec 2024practical energy 5

    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 own answer. Protein first,…

  • Sore and slow

    Bridie25 Dec 2024sore energy 1turning point

    This week: The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the pattern it stopped feeling…

  • I have started

    Bruno25 Dec 2024wired energy 3

    I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. So. First one done. I had been carrying…

  • Nine minutes

    Clemmie25 Dec 2024frustrated energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered.…

  • An unremarkable week

    Duncan25 Dec 2024fine energy 4

    Three things this week. 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…

  • Where the pen lives

    Ephraim25 Dec 2024organised energy 4

    New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great…

  • Across the day

    Harri25 Dec 2024steady energy 3

    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 across the day…

  • Quiet

    Ike25 Dec 2024steady energy 5

    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. Steady. That…