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My mother cooks
Vivawkward energy 4
Well then. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still…
Laces
Ambrosequietly delighted energy 2
A brief account of the week. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have…
Circle tonight
Birdiewarm energy 4
Evening. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four of…
Across the day
Duncansteady energy 1
Week in order: Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Protein first, everything else after. It is not…
Where the pen lives
Florrieorganised energy 4
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. New sharps bin, and a…
The question I had been avoiding
Hattiefrustrated energy 5
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 read it…
Standing in the kitchen
Norahhopeful energy 1
Right. Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup of tea and put a wash…
Eight minutes and a chair
Ollietired but good energy 4
Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for…
The question I had been avoiding
Sadiefrustrated energy 2
Quickly, before bed. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Nine minutes. I…
First dose, done
Soniawired energy 3turning point
A gentle week, mostly. 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 have started
Tobyhopeful energy 5
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup…
Nothing to report
Bertiefine energy 5
A brief account of 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…
No mask
Brodyrested energy 5
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…
Flat, whole night
Flossiequietly delighted energy 5
Evening. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Early…
Quiet
Gavinfine energy 3
A quiet week. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Cheers.
I have started
Gwynethhopeful energy 3
This week: 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…
Six labelled boxes
Heddaorganised energy 1
Recording this for the record. 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…
Day one
Larkwired energy 5turning point
Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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…
Stayed for the company
Maryamwarm energy 1turning point
The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Became the person…
First dose, done
Nednervous energy 4
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…
Nothing to report
Posysteady energy 4
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. Injection…
A different shape
Salmarested energy 5
A gentle week, mostly. 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…
The list on the fridge
Tedsteady energy 4
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. Was undereating without…
A different shape
Poppyfoggy energy 2
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…