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  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Dilly26 Oct 2024held energy 1

    Evening. 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…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Duncan26 Oct 2024held energy 1

    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. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Martha26 Oct 2024organised energy 2

    Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is the entire system and it has twice changed a clinical decision. Anchored injection day to my shift…

  • Protein first

    Ned26 Oct 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. Was…

  • Nothing to report

    Nix26 Oct 2024flat energy 3

    Notes for the week. 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. Nothing to…

  • Awake at four

    Prue26 Oct 2024rested energy 5

    Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I…

  • Two lines a day

    Ravi26 Oct 2024organised energy 1

    Recording this for the record. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Two lines…

  • Stayed for the company

    Lena25 Oct 2024warm energy 3

    Recording this for the record. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified,…

  • Stayed for the company

    Bly25 Oct 2024warm energy 2

    The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Somebody new…

  • Slept through

    Esme25 Oct 2024tired energy 1

    Evening. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two…

  • Awake at four

    Florrie25 Oct 2024rested energy 2

    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 changed shape rather…

  • Circle tonight

    Gavin25 Oct 2024warm energy 5

    A quiet week. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical answers and stayed…

  • A wedding

    Gilly25 Oct 2024loved energy 3

    Well then. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can,…

  • The first one

    Harri25 Oct 2024hopeful energy 2

    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.…

  • Holding here

    Hattie25 Oct 2024wary energy 2turning point

    I have been at the same step for five months and every clinician I meet seems mildly surprised. It is working. I am not moving. Slowed the schedule right down. Went…

  • Holding here

    Inês25 Oct 2024wary energy 5turning point

    I have been at the same step for five months and every clinician I meet seems mildly surprised. It is working. I am not moving. A slower schedule agreed with her…

  • Beginning, badly

    Tavia25 Oct 2024nervous energy 2turning point

    I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Viv25 Oct 2024brisk energy 3turning point

    Well then. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Her GP took it seriously, investigated, and treated it. Nine…

  • First dose, done

    Wystan25 Oct 2024wired energy 5

    I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight…

  • I nearly did not write

    Poppy24 Oct 2024fine energy 2

    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…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Bo24 Oct 2024brisk energy 3

    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…

  • Quiet

    Bridie24 Oct 2024fine energy 5

    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…

  • Nothing to report

    Ray24 Oct 2024steady energy 1

    Right. 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…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Maple24 Oct 2024organised energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. 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…