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  • Standing in the kitchen

    Bodhi11 Dec 2024wired energy 4turning point

    Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup of tea and put a wash on. A…

  • No mask

    Bunny11 Dec 2024rested energy 1

    The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up…

  • Iron and B12

    Carl11 Dec 2024pleased energy 1turning point

    Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. A1c down for the first time in four years.…

  • Slept through

    Dev11 Dec 2024rested energy 1

    Recording this for the record. 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…

  • I have started

    Freya11 Dec 2024hopeful energy 2

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. So. First one done. I had…

  • Dreams

    Gilly11 Dec 2024foggy energy 2

    Right. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Repeat study came back and…

  • Nine minutes

    Linnet11 Dec 2024frustrated energy 1

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. A locum who had clearly…

  • Protein first

    Marnie11 Dec 2024steady energy 5

    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. Greek…

  • Nothing to report

    Ned11 Dec 2024steady energy 5

    A quiet week. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Aye.

  • I nearly did not write

    Ollie11 Dec 2024fine energy 1

    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. Injection…

  • First dose, done

    Stellan11 Dec 2024wired energy 1

    Notes for the week. Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only fair to leave…

  • Paired

    Tulla11 Dec 2024held energy 4

    This week: 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…

  • Circle tonight

    Wilf11 Dec 2024warm energy 5

    This week: Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four of…

  • Propped up on pillows

    Anna10 Dec 2024sore energy 2turning point

    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…

  • She stopped the room

    Bertie10 Dec 2024warm energy 2

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring.…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Bly10 Dec 2024heard energy 1

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Took the diary in. She read it…

  • Beginning, badly

    Clover10 Dec 2024hopeful energy 2

    Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup of tea and put a wash on. So.…

  • A locum

    Fen10 Dec 2024frustrated energy 5

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three…

  • She noticed first

    Flossie10 Dec 2024held energy 3

    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. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…

  • Walking

    Gavin10 Dec 2024tired but good energy 5

    A quiet week. 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. Eight minutes and a…

  • Awake at four

    Gwenda10 Dec 2024rested energy 1

    This week: Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there…

  • Quiet

    Pam10 Dec 2024steady energy 3

    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. An unremarkable week. Ate,…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Noah9 Dec 2024organised energy 1

    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. Two lines a day in a…

  • The first one

    Ashwin9 Dec 2024wired energy 5turning point

    Week in order: Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only fair to leave one…