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Beginning, badly
Stefannervous energy 5turning point
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…
No news
Tamfine energy 4
Week in order: 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. An…
Steady
Tobiasfine energy 5
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…
Dreams
Ambrosefoggy energy 1
Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot…
Starters as a main
Flossieawkward energy 1
Evening. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…
The pattern of it
Gavinsore energy 5
Sore at the injection site for about ten days, a small firm lump under the skin. The pharmacist looked at it, was unbothered, and told me to move further round next…
A locum
Gusfrustrated energy 1
Sitting down to this properly tonight. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Took the diary in. She read it…
First dose, done
Juniperhopeful energy 1turning point
Well then. 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.…
Nine minutes
Bofrustrated energy 2
Short one tonight. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Left with a printout I could not read and no…
Flat, whole night
Cassquietly delighted energy 2
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. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of…
Eight minutes and a chair
Duncantired but good energy 3
Three things this week. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done.…
Sore and slow
Gavinrough energy 2turning point
A quiet week. Constipation, which I have avoided writing about for six weeks out of pure squeamishness. It is the thing making me most miserable and I have said…
Two lengths, badly
Gwynethpleased energy 5
This week: 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. Slept flat. Whole night.…
Before nine
Hattiesteady energy 4
Short one tonight. 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.…
Grip
Ivestired but good energy 2
This 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 is…
Two lines a day
Jontyorganised energy 1
Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing.…
Sunday lunch
Marnieloved energy 3
Short one tonight. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no…
My mother cooks
Nedloved energy 4
A quiet week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently. No…
Steady
Rinflat energy 4
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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.…
A printout I cannot read
Tullafrustrated energy 1
This week: A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Left with a printout I could not…
Fewer, heavier
Wilftired but good energy 1
Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two…
Cut it short
Winniehopeful energy 1turning point
Regrowth at the front. Short soft bits standing up at the parting like a toddler's. I have never been so pleased about anything so unattractive. Shedding at month…
My sister started too
Katetender energy 2turning point
Right. My sister started too, three weeks after me. We compare notes badly and lovingly. Her sister said something unkind at a christening and it took a month to…
Six labelled boxes
Bexpleased energy 2turning point
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle.…