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  • Circle tonight

    Prue31 Jul 2024warm energy 1

    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…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Sadie31 Jul 2024grateful energy 4

    Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Tam31 Jul 2024organised energy 5

    Three things this week. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. New sharps bin,…

  • An unremarkable week

    Kate30 Jul 2024fine energy 2

    Well then. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory…

  • Starters as a main

    Ambrose30 Jul 2024awkward energy 4

    A brief account of the week. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be…

  • Beginning, badly

    Bertie30 Jul 2024wired energy 2turning point

    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. Then eight…

  • An unremarkable week

    Dora30 Jul 2024fine energy 4

    Week in order: An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Steady. That is the whole entry. No news. The dog is…

  • I have started

    Esme30 Jul 2024hopeful energy 4

    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…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Florrie30 Jul 2024organised energy 1

    Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Anchored injection day to my shift…

  • She stopped the room

    Flossie30 Jul 2024warm energy 2

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring.…

  • Steady

    Gus30 Jul 2024fine energy 5

    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…

  • Nine minutes

    Viv30 Jul 2024frustrated energy 5

    Well then. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. A locum who had clearly…

  • Day one

    Annika29 Jul 2024wired energy 5turning point

    Short one 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 to give back, and in…

  • Steady

    Bea29 Jul 2024steady energy 1

    Late, and writing anyway. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Steady. That is the whole entry. No news.…

  • Flat, whole night

    Dev29 Jul 2024quietly delighted energy 3

    Notes for the week. 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 check. Walked into…

  • Dreams

    Hattie29 Jul 2024foggy energy 2

    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.…

  • Before nine

    Nan29 Jul 2024steady energy 3

    Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have…

  • Quiet

    Ruthie29 Jul 2024flat energy 2

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Next paper Sunday.

  • A different shape

    Mina28 Jul 2024rested energy 5

    A quiet week. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It…

  • I nearly did not write

    Holly28 Jul 2024fine energy 3

    A quiet 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. Nothing…

  • A different shape

    Martha28 Jul 2024foggy 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…

  • The list on the fridge

    Ollie28 Jul 2024steady energy 4

    A gentle week, mostly. 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.…

  • Dreams

    Priya28 Jul 2024foggy energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than…

  • Across the day

    Lena27 Jul 2024practical energy 5

    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…