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  • Dreams

    Holly30 Aug 2024rested energy 3

    A quiet week. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I…

  • She reduced it

    Keeley30 Aug 2024heard energy 1

    Late, and writing anyway. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Left with a printout I could not read and no…

  • Paired

    Mark30 Aug 2024held energy 4

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing…

  • Nothing to report

    Ottoline30 Aug 2024fine energy 1

    A brief account of the 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…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Tam30 Aug 2024heard energy 4

    Week in order: 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. Asked the question I had been…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Kate29 Aug 2024frustrated energy 2

    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…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Bay29 Aug 2024organised energy 5

    A gentle week, mostly. 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. New sharps bin,…

  • Grip

    Dev29 Aug 2024tired but good energy 3

    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…

  • Dreams

    Maryam29 Aug 2024tired energy 4

    Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other…

  • Two sessions

    Prue29 Aug 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…

  • Beginning, badly

    Tansy29 Aug 2024wired energy 2turning point

    Well then. 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 fair to leave one…

  • A different shape

    Lena28 Aug 2024rested energy 4

    Recording this for the record. 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…

  • Across the day

    Mina28 Aug 2024steady energy 4

    A quiet week. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer.…

  • Iron and B12

    Dora28 Aug 2024pleased energy 2

    Week in order: A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word…

  • Laces

    Gus28 Aug 2024pleased energy 2

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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…

  • I nearly did not write

    Priya28 Aug 2024flat energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Steady. That is the whole…

  • I nearly did not write

    Noah27 Aug 2024fine energy 1

    Well then. 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. Nothing to…

  • Beginning, badly

    Col27 Aug 2024nervous energy 2turning point

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…

  • I nearly did not write

    Kez27 Aug 2024flat energy 5

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept…

  • Paired

    Lark27 Aug 2024held energy 4

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one,…

  • Paired

    Lu27 Aug 2024held energy 1

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing…

  • Circle tonight

    Patrick27 Aug 2024warm energy 5

    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 for the…

  • Where the pen lives

    Peggy27 Aug 2024organised energy 5

    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.…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Ruthie27 Aug 2024organised energy 5

    Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date,…