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  • Sunday night, four lines

    Norah18 Sep 2024held energy 3

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be…

  • What is your secret

    Tam18 Sep 2024warm energy 5

    Three things this week. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Annika17 Sep 2024brisk energy 1

    Short one tonight. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Left with a…

  • Awake at four

    Brody17 Sep 2024rested energy 4

    This week: 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…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Bunny17 Sep 2024hopeful energy 5

    So. First one done. I had been carrying the box around the house for four days like it was something I had borrowed and needed to give back, and in the end I did it…

  • Two sessions

    Gus17 Sep 2024tired but good energy 1

    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 annoyingly…

  • Nothing to report

    Gwenda17 Sep 2024flat energy 2

    This week: 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. Quiet.…

  • Somebody new

    Ike17 Sep 2024warm energy 1

    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…

  • Circle tonight

    Maryam17 Sep 2024warm energy 2

    Recording this for the record. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical…

  • Paired

    Peggy17 Sep 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…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Pam17 Sep 2024organised energy 2

    Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend…

  • The limits of yoghurt

    Posy17 Sep 2024steady energy 3

    Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I…

  • Stayed for the company

    Ruthie17 Sep 2024warm energy 5

    A brief account of the week. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight,…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Salma17 Sep 2024held energy 2

    A gentle week, mostly. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four…

  • My mother cooks

    Bay16 Sep 2024loved energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying…

  • Somebody new

    Bea16 Sep 2024steadied energy 1turning point

    A quiet 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. Joined the reading…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Bertie16 Sep 2024frustrated energy 1

    A brief account of the week. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary…

  • Steady

    Bex16 Sep 2024flat energy 2

    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 unremarkable week.…

  • Sunday lunch

    Hedda16 Sep 2024awkward energy 1

    Notes for the week. 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…

  • The first one

    Lark16 Sep 2024wired energy 2

    The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the bits I remember and I will ask again at…

  • Day one

    Marit16 Sep 2024nervous energy 3turning 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. Started in September and cycled to the…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Patrick16 Sep 2024quietly delighted energy 3

    Short one tonight. 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. Full shift on my feet and…

  • Beginning, badly

    Pippa16 Sep 2024hopeful energy 4turning point

    A gentle week, mostly. 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…

  • An unremarkable week

    Priya16 Sep 2024steady energy 2

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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…