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Off the floor
Maryamgrateful energy 4
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. Swam. First…
Anchored to the shifts
Posyorganised energy 5
This week: 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…
The third day
Samsteady energy 1
Asked about going slower and was braced for a fight I did not get. She said plenty of people do better on a longer step and wrote it down. I had spent a week…
She reduced it
Kateheard energy 5
Right. 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 idea what to be…
The first one
Flossiehopeful energy 5turning point
Evening. 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…
Quiet
Olliefine energy 2
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down…
An unremarkable week
Dorafine energy 5
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 well, the…
Day one
Guswired energy 4
What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. So. First one done. I had been carrying the box around…
She noticed first
Ottolineheld energy 1
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. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five…
Across the day
Salmasteady energy 5
A gentle week, mostly. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and…
Not writing about this would be dishonest
Dorasore energy 4turning point
A rough few days. Not dangerous, just relentlessly unpleasant, the kind of unwell where you cannot read and cannot sleep and cannot settle to anything. Charted her…
Paired
Duncanheld energy 3
Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. My buddy noticed something in my journal…
Nothing to report
Rayfine energy 3
Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made…
Beginning, badly
Hollywired energy 5turning point
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…
Back without making it up
Nantired but good energy 1
This week: Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Eight minutes and a chair. That is…
Day one
Tamnervous energy 1turning point
Three things this week. 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…
A new bin and a plan
Poppyorganised energy 3
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested…
Steady
Devfine energy 4
An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken…
The first one
Kezhopeful energy 1
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…
Stayed for the company
Marthasteadied energy 1
Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in…
I have started
Ruthienervous energy 4turning point
A brief account of the week. What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. A calm start with a…
Sunday night, four lines
Minaheld energy 4
Late, and writing anyway. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights,…
Somebody new
Priyawarm energy 1
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. Went for the practical answers and…
Stayed for the company
Lenawarm energy 2
Notes for the 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.…