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  • Sunday night, four lines

    Lena22 Nov 2024held energy 4

    Notes for the week. 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. My buddy noticed something in…

  • No mask

    Poppy22 Nov 2024rested energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. 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. The sleep has…

  • A wedding

    Gigi22 Nov 2024awkward energy 4turning point

    Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. Sunday lunch, negotiated with love and without lying. Somebody asked what…

  • Two lines a day

    Gwenda22 Nov 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. New sharps bin, and a…

  • The first one

    Harlan22 Nov 2024hopeful energy 3

    Recording this for the record. 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…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Holly22 Nov 2024brisk energy 5turning point

    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. A menopause…

  • Steady

    Lu22 Nov 2024steady energy 2

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been…

  • Steady

    Maple22 Nov 2024steady energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly 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…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Ned22 Nov 2024organised energy 4

    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…

  • Awake at four

    Nettie22 Nov 2024rested energy 5

    This 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 written…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Nix22 Nov 2024flat energy 4turning point

    Notes for the 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…

  • No news

    Ravi22 Nov 2024fine energy 1

    Notes for the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been…

  • No news

    Rilla22 Nov 2024flat energy 3

    Steady. That is the whole entry. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Chopper Tuesday.

  • Fewer, heavier

    Sam22 Nov 2024tired but good energy 4

    Recording this for the record. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in…

  • I have started

    Sorrel22 Nov 2024nervous energy 1turning 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…

  • Dreams

    Tansy22 Nov 2024tired energy 3

    Right. 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…

  • Quiet

    Toby22 Nov 2024fine energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. 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…

  • What was underneath

    Mina21 Nov 2024thoughtful energy 5turning point

    Late, and writing anyway. Something has gone quiet and it took me weeks to be able to name it. There was a running commentary in my head about food — what was in the…

  • I have started

    Clover21 Nov 2024wired energy 1turning point

    I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. A first entry worried about protein.…

  • She noticed first

    Dev21 Nov 2024held energy 1

    Recording this for the record. 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…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Gavin21 Nov 2024quietly delighted energy 3

    A quiet week. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Up the stairs at work twice…

  • Stayed for the company

    Lark21 Nov 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. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an…

  • No mask

    Marit21 Nov 2024rested energy 1

    This week: Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Solomon21 Nov 2024hopeful energy 3

    Week in order: So. First one done. I had been carrying the box around the house for four days like it was something I had borrowed and needed to give back, and in the…