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  • Walking

    Rohan16 Oct 2024tired but good energy 4

    Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps…

  • No news

    Calla16 Oct 2024fine energy 4

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

  • Fewer, heavier

    Col16 Oct 2024tired but good energy 5

    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…

  • A rough few days

    Dev16 Oct 2024rough energy 4turning point

    Recording this for the record. Very tired. Not the kind of tired a nap fixes. I slept nine hours and woke feeling as though I had been awake all night. Wrote up his…

  • She reduced it

    Fen16 Oct 2024heard energy 5

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Took the diary in. She read it…

  • Back without making it up

    Florrie16 Oct 2024tired but good energy 2

    Evening. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Kept the two sessions that matter and…

  • I have started

    Gilly16 Oct 2024hopeful energy 2

    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…

  • Quiet

    Harri16 Oct 2024fine energy 4

    Notes for the week. 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…

  • Nothing to report

    Ike16 Oct 2024fine energy 2

    This week: 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 have…

  • Day one

    Juno16 Oct 2024hopeful energy 4turning point

    What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. First entry is a list of reasons this is probably a…

  • Sunday lunch

    Keeley16 Oct 2024awkward energy 4

    Late, and writing anyway. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely.…

  • What is your secret

    Maryam16 Oct 2024awkward energy 1

    Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can,…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Moss16 Oct 2024organised energy 4

    A gentle week, mostly. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Batch cooked…

  • Flat, whole night

    Peggy16 Oct 2024grateful energy 1

    This week: Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. 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…

  • No news

    Ronan16 Oct 2024steady energy 4

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Steady. That is the whole entry. No news. The dog is well, the…

  • Starters as a main

    Ruthie16 Oct 2024awkward energy 3

    A brief account of the week. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. Starters as a main course, permanently. No…

  • Stayed for the company

    Salma16 Oct 2024steadied energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new…

  • Nine minutes

    Ted16 Oct 2024heard energy 3

    This week: Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Took the diary in. She…

  • Day one

    Tulla16 Oct 2024wired energy 2turning point

    I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. Eleven months on a list. Day one. I am…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Ambrose15 Oct 2024held energy 3

    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 most…

  • She reduced it

    Annika15 Oct 2024brisk energy 5

    Late, and writing anyway. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Nine minutes. I took…

  • Steady

    Bel15 Oct 2024flat energy 4

    Short one tonight. Steady. That is the whole entry. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Better tomorrow, probably.

  • Quiet

    Birdie15 Oct 2024flat energy 5

    Evening. 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. Steady. That…

  • Somebody new

    Brody15 Oct 2024warm energy 2

    This week: 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. Went for the practical…