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Nine minutes
Carlbrisk energy 2
This week: Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea…
Stayed for the company
Fenwarm energy 4
This week: 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. Circle…
No mask
Gigirested energy 3
The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced.…
Sore and slow
Rayflat energy 5
Right. Sore at the injection site for about ten days, a small firm lump under the skin. The pharmacist looked at it, was unbothered, and told me to move further round…
Standing in the kitchen
Gwendahopeful energy 2
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…
Beginning, badly
Gwynethhopeful energy 3turning point
This week: 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 going to stop…
Starters as a main
Hannahwarm energy 1
Short one 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 a word. Somebody…
Sore and slow
Kezrough energy 2turning point
Quickly, before bed. Cramp in both calves in the night, twice this week. Mentioned it and had bloods done rather than being told to eat a banana, which I appreciated.…
Day one
Lilhopeful energy 1
What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person,…
Steady
Linnetfine energy 4
An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then…
First dose, done
Norahnervous energy 4turning point
Well then. 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.…
The first one
Rinwired energy 5turning point
Quickly, before bed. 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…
Unpleasant, not dangerous
Samflat energy 3
Recording this for the record. The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the…
Awake at four
Saratired energy 3
A gentle week, mostly. 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…
Starters as a main
Tobiaswarm energy 5
Notes for the week. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…
Steady
Lenafine energy 4
Notes for the week. 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. I nearly did…
A1c down
Dorarelieved energy 5turning point
Week in order: A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. First quarterly panel. Explained reference ranges to…
Both bags, one go
Esmequietly delighted energy 2
Evening. 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. Up the stairs at work twice without…
Day one
Luwired energy 2turning point
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…
Quiet
Marniefine energy 5
A quiet week. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing.…
She reduced it
Maryambrisk energy 1
Notes for the week. 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. Left with a printout I…
An hour on the floor
Ottolinepleased energy 5
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. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing.…
Circle tonight
Pamwarm energy 3
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 us were…
Dreams
Wilfrested energy 2
This week: Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not…