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  • Sunday lunch

    Rafe11 Nov 2024awkward energy 2

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Ted11 Nov 2024organised energy 3

    This week: New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which…

  • No news

    Bertie10 Nov 2024steady energy 2

    Steady. That is the whole entry. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of…

  • Paired

    Duncan10 Nov 2024held energy 4

    Three things 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…

  • A different shape

    Freya10 Nov 2024foggy energy 3

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying…

  • The first one

    Gil10 Nov 2024hopeful energy 3turning point

    The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop reading it.…

  • Paired

    Gilly10 Nov 2024held energy 1

    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 fine one,…

  • Awake at four

    Gus10 Nov 2024tired energy 5

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was…

  • I nearly did not write

    Gwenda10 Nov 2024steady energy 5

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made…

  • I nearly did not write

    Hattie10 Nov 2024flat energy 5

    Short one tonight. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I…

  • I nearly did not write

    Minnie10 Nov 2024steady energy 2

    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. Nothing to report.…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Nan10 Nov 2024tired but good energy 1

    Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I…

  • Steady

    Ottoline10 Nov 2024fine energy 5

    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…

  • Both bags, one go

    Saoirse10 Nov 2024pleased energy 2

    Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since…

  • The list on the fridge

    Thea10 Nov 2024steady energy 5

    A brief account of the week. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a…

  • Grip

    Dev9 Nov 2024tired but good energy 5

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

  • She reduced it

    Dora9 Nov 2024brisk energy 5turning point

    Three things this week. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Her internist reduced her metformin. She had…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Flossie9 Nov 2024grateful energy 2

    Evening. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Early market.

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Gwen9 Nov 2024held energy 1

    This week: 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 has quietly become the…

  • The bad fortnight

    Lark9 Nov 2024rough energy 2turning 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. Nausea at four…

  • Two sessions

    Maple9 Nov 2024tired but good energy 5

    Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is annoyingly…

  • A locum

    Mark9 Nov 2024brisk energy 5

    Quickly, before bed. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary in. She…

  • Slept through

    Maryam9 Nov 2024tired energy 5

    Recording this for the record. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit…

  • Sunday lunch

    Norah9 Nov 2024awkward energy 5

    Well then. 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.…