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  • She stopped the room

    Espe29 Sep 2025warm energy 2

    Evening. 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. Somebody…

  • Starters as a main

    Ray29 Sep 2025awkward energy 2

    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. Starters as a main course,…

  • Walking

    Nolan29 Sep 2025tired but good energy 1

    Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up…

  • No mask

    Prue29 Sep 2025foggy energy 3

    Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I…

  • Six months off

    Zoë29 Sep 2025calm energy 1

    Last dose was three weeks ago. Appetite is coming back in a shape I recognise and I am watching it with interest rather than fear, mostly. I could not afford it. That…

  • Nine minutes

    Rohan28 Sep 2025brisk energy 4

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three…

  • She noticed first

    Birdie28 Sep 2025held energy 1

    Evening. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a…

  • Nothing to report

    Patrick28 Sep 2025flat energy 2

    Short one tonight. 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. No…

  • Somebody new

    Thea28 Sep 2025warm energy 4

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Tilda28 Sep 2025tired but good energy 3

    Week in order: Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up…

  • Quiet

    Rowan27 Sep 2025flat energy 1

    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. Steady. That is the…

  • Starters as a main

    Carl27 Sep 2025awkward energy 1

    This week: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently. No…

  • Quiet

    Gwyneth27 Sep 2025steady energy 5

    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. Steady. That is the…

  • A calculator and a cup of tea

    Nadia27 Sep 2025pinched energy 3

    Week in order: What this has displaced in the budget: the car being fixed, and a holiday. I have decided that is the right trade for now and I reserve the right to…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Pam27 Sep 2025heard energy 1

    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. Asked the question I had been avoiding for…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Saoirse27 Sep 2025quietly delighted energy 1

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Got down on the floor and back up again…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Ash26 Sep 2025frustrated energy 3

    Well then. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got…

  • No mask

    Bel26 Sep 2025tired energy 1

    A quiet week. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. The sleep has changed…

  • She stopped the room

    Col26 Sep 2025warm energy 5

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified,…

  • Awake at four

    Esme26 Sep 2025foggy energy 2

    Evening. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Inês26 Sep 2025held energy 2

    Short one tonight. 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…

  • Off the floor

    Jonty26 Sep 2025quietly delighted energy 2

    A brief account of 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. Tied…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Nix26 Sep 2025organised energy 2

    Recording this for the record. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Small…

  • An unremarkable week

    Odile26 Sep 2025steady energy 4

    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. Bonne soirée.