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  • Two lines a day

    Dilly6 Oct 2024organised energy 4

    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. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad…

  • The list on the fridge

    Gavin6 Oct 2024steady energy 1

    A quiet week. 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…

  • Awake at four

    Gwen6 Oct 2024rested energy 5

    This week: 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. Waking at four again. Not…

  • Steady

    Ollie6 Oct 2024fine energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down…

  • Steady

    Sadie6 Oct 2024flat energy 3

    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.…

  • She stopped the room

    Salma6 Oct 2024warm energy 5turning point

    Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Joined the recovery-aware circle and found the rules a…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Lena5 Oct 2024brisk energy 5

    Recording this for the record. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Left…

  • An unremarkable week

    Kate5 Oct 2024fine energy 1

    Right. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that…

  • The limits of yoghurt

    Bex5 Oct 2024steady energy 1

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

  • Steady

    Duncan5 Oct 2024fine energy 3

    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. No news. The dog is…

  • Awake at four

    Gwyneth5 Oct 2024tired energy 5

    This week: The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just…

  • A wedding

    Keeley5 Oct 2024loved energy 1

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

  • A wedding

    Odile5 Oct 2024loved energy 2

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • An unremarkable week

    Peggy5 Oct 2024fine energy 3

    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…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Sara5 Oct 2024organised energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months.…

  • Where the pen lives

    Sonia5 Oct 2024organised energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. 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…

  • Day one

    Tarn5 Oct 2024wired energy 3

    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…

  • An unremarkable week

    Noah4 Oct 2024steady energy 3

    Right. 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…

  • Back without making it up

    Ambrose4 Oct 2024tired but good energy 1turning point

    Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Started resistance work at sixty-six,…

  • I wanted to stop

    Annika4 Oct 2024stubborn energy 2turning point

    Second plateau, and it is easier than the first, mostly because I have been here and come out the other side without doing anything clever. Month four, nothing at…

  • A locum

    Brody4 Oct 2024brisk energy 4

    Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Col4 Oct 2024grateful energy 2

    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…

  • An unremarkable week

    Flossie4 Oct 2024fine 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…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Gilly4 Oct 2024hopeful energy 4turning point

    Well then. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. A first entry about hypocrisy.…