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  • Walking

    Rilla16 Nov 2024tired but good energy 5

    Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying…

  • Grip

    Ronan16 Nov 2024tired but good energy 3

    This 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. Two sessions this…

  • Sunday lunch

    Tarn16 Nov 2024awkward energy 3

    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. My mother cooks. That is how…

  • First dose, done

    Zeb16 Nov 2024wired energy 5turning point

    Three things this 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…

  • Stayed for the company

    Annika15 Nov 2024steadied energy 5

    Short one tonight. 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.…

  • The first one

    Ash15 Nov 2024hopeful energy 1

    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 behind. What I…

  • Starters as a main

    Brody15 Nov 2024warm energy 5

    My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. A wedding. Three courses…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Carl15 Nov 2024held energy 4

    This week: My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines…

  • A plain question

    Duncan15 Nov 2024steady energy 2

    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. Greek yoghurt,…

  • Paired

    Flossie15 Nov 2024held energy 4

    Evening. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Gigi15 Nov 2024tired but good energy 3

    Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Eight…

  • Steady

    Harri15 Nov 2024flat energy 4

    Recording this for the record. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…

  • Where the pen lives

    Holly15 Nov 2024organised energy 4

    Late, and writing anyway. 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…

  • Back without making it up

    Inês15 Nov 2024tired but good energy 3

    Short one 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 time. Walked instead…

  • No news

    Ives15 Nov 2024flat 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. Steady. That is the whole entry.…

  • The pattern of it

    Maple15 Nov 2024flat energy 1turning point

    A rough few days. Not dangerous, just relentlessly unpleasant, the kind of unwell where you cannot read and cannot sleep and cannot settle to anything. Documented…

  • Quiet

    Maryam15 Nov 2024fine energy 5

    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 thing. An unremarkable…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Nuala15 Nov 2024held energy 3

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before.…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Mina14 Nov 2024tired but good energy 2

    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. Grip strength has gone off and I…

  • Both bags, one go

    Poppy14 Nov 2024grateful energy 1

    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. Carried both bags up in one go.…

  • Two sessions

    Ambrose14 Nov 2024tired but good energy 4

    A brief account of the week. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Grip strength has gone off…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Bo14 Nov 2024flat energy 5

    A quiet week. Headache for three days running. It turned out I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday. Water, then a slow improvement, then feeling faintly stupid.…

  • First dose, done

    Clemmie14 Nov 2024hopeful energy 1turning point

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the…

  • A wedding

    Fen14 Nov 2024awkward energy 3

    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…