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  • An unremarkable week

    Bea22 Jun 2024fine energy 3

    A quiet week. Steady. That is the whole entry. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh…

  • Into town and back

    Dora22 Jun 2024quietly delighted energy 3

    Week in order: Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Got down on…

  • An unremarkable week

    Prue22 Jun 2024flat energy 2

    A brief account of the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…

  • Back down a step

    Sam22 Jun 2024braced energy 1turning point

    I have been at the same step for five months and every clinician I meet seems mildly surprised. It is working. I am not moving. Three weeks per step instead of four,…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Dilly21 Jun 2024hopeful energy 2turning point

    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…

  • Before nine

    Kate20 Jun 2024steady energy 2

    Right. 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. I have…

  • Protein first

    Duncan20 Jun 2024steady energy 2

    Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Got something with protein in before nine this…

  • The first one

    Florrie20 Jun 2024nervous energy 3turning point

    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…

  • Quiet

    Maryam20 Jun 2024fine energy 5

    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. An unremarkable…

  • Beginning, badly

    Peggy20 Jun 2024wired energy 2

    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…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Mina19 Jun 2024nervous energy 1turning point

    Short one tonight. 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 first entry that reads like a…

  • She read the diary

    Florrie19 Jun 2024brisk energy 3

    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 what to be…

  • I have started

    Gus19 Jun 2024hopeful energy 4turning point

    A gentle week, mostly. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. A first entry…

  • No news

    Mark19 Jun 2024flat energy 5

    Quickly, before bed. Steady. That is the whole entry. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The…

  • She stopped the room

    Sam19 Jun 2024warm energy 3

    Notes for the week. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us…

  • The first one

    Ollie18 Jun 2024wired energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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…

  • First dose, done

    Ottoline18 Jun 2024nervous energy 3turning point

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • Sunday lunch

    Dora17 Jun 2024loved energy 5

    Week in order: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate,…

  • An unremarkable week

    Lena16 Jun 2024fine energy 2

    Recording this for the record. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Mina16 Jun 2024held energy 1

    Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it.…

  • I have started

    Poppy16 Jun 2024wired energy 4

    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 reading it.…

  • Where the pen lives

    Kate16 Jun 2024organised energy 4

    Well then. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that…

  • First dose, done

    Posy16 Jun 2024hopeful energy 2turning point

    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…

  • She stopped the room

    Priya16 Jun 2024warm energy 4

    A gentle week, mostly. 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…