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  • Paired

    Ives7 Nov 2024held energy 3

    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

    Jonty7 Nov 2024warm energy 1

    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 us were…

  • The list on the fridge

    Kez7 Nov 2024steady energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Got something with…

  • Starters as a main

    Moray7 Nov 2024awkward energy 2

    Well then. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Nettie7 Nov 2024quietly delighted 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. Full shift on my feet and my knees…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Peggy7 Nov 2024organised energy 5

    This week: Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Batch cooked on a good day…

  • An unremarkable week

    Pippa7 Nov 2024flat energy 2

    A gentle week, mostly. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sara7 Nov 2024fine energy 3

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…

  • Paired

    Solomon7 Nov 2024held energy 2

    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,…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Matt6 Nov 2024held energy 3

    Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the…

  • Quiet

    Mina6 Nov 2024fine energy 3

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

  • First dose, done

    Ash6 Nov 2024hopeful energy 5

    I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. The pharmacist talked me through it very…

  • Before nine

    Bay6 Nov 2024steady energy 5

    Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Bertie6 Nov 2024sore energy 1turning point

    Cramp in both calves in the night, twice this week. Mentioned it and had bloods done rather than being told to eat a banana, which I appreciated. A hard autumn.…

  • Nothing to report

    Brody6 Nov 2024steady energy 2

    This week: Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is…

  • A plain question

    Bunny6 Nov 2024steady energy 1

    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. Was undereating without…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Fen6 Nov 2024organised energy 3

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

  • A locum

    Gigi6 Nov 2024brisk energy 1

    Evening. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Ray6 Nov 2024heard energy 2

    She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and…

  • An unremarkable week

    Hannah6 Nov 2024steady energy 1

    Late, and writing anyway. 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…

  • Not writing about this would be dishonest

    Lu6 Nov 2024sore energy 2

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Headache for three days running. It turned out I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday. Water, then a slow improvement, then feeling…

  • A different shape

    Marnie6 Nov 2024tired energy 5

    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. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort…

  • The pattern of it

    Ned6 Nov 2024flat energy 2turning point

    The burping. Nobody mentions the burping. It is not in any leaflet and it is genuinely one of the odder experiences of my adult life. Three sentences. Reflux again. I…

  • Two sessions

    Rin6 Nov 2024tired but good energy 5

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and…