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I have started
Maplenervous energy 4turning point
Sitting down to this properly tonight. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment.…
Before nine
Devsteady energy 1
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. Spread it across…
Anchored to the shifts
Florrieorganised energy 3
Evening. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared…
Stayed for the company
Flossiewarm energy 1
Evening. 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. The facilitator stopped…
A rough few days
Raysore energy 1turning point
Constipation, which I have avoided writing about for six weeks out of pure squeamishness. It is the thing making me most miserable and I have said nothing about it to…
An unremarkable week
Gusfine energy 1
A gentle week, mostly. 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. An…
Nine minutes
Hollybrisk energy 2
Late, and writing anyway. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced…
Steady
Maryamfine energy 2
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 not write this week…
The question I had been avoiding
Olliebrisk energy 1
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Nine minutes. I took…
Standing in the kitchen
Pamhopeful energy 5
A brief account of the week. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. So. First…
The pattern of it
Minasore energy 3turning point
Bad week and I am writing it down anyway, because a journal that only contains the good weeks would be a lie and no use to anybody reading it later. A hot Lisbon…
I have started
Annikahopeful energy 4
Short one tonight. 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…
The first one
Bertiehopeful energy 5
What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody…
Slept through
Brodyrested 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…
Beginning, badly
Gigiwired energy 2
Evening. 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…
An unremarkable week
Hattiefine energy 5
Short one tonight. 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…
The limits of yoghurt
Inêssteady energy 3
A quiet week. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the…
Day one
Linnetnervous energy 4turning point
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I…
She reduced it
Patrickbrisk energy 4
Late, and writing anyway. 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. Took the diary in.…
Off the floor
Duncanquietly delighted energy 5
Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it…
Eight minutes and a chair
Keztired but good energy 2
Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back…
A new bin and a plan
Norahorganised energy 2
Right. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Two lines a day in a paper…
No news
Ruthieflat energy 5
A brief account of the week. Steady. That is the whole entry. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Next paper Sunday.
She noticed first
Kateheld energy 2
Right. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing…