Journal
Lu’s journal
The other half of the Preston pair.
Just Wednesdays
week 96content energy 52 replies
Quickly, before bed. The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now.…
A1c down
week 77relieved energy 5
A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Fine. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once…
Nothing
week 49low energy 51 reply
Flat again. I have stopped looking, which is either healthy or avoidance and I genuinely cannot tell. Flat while Lil was not, which was hard. The plateau has been going on…
Slept through
week 40rested energy 4
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. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is…
A different shape
week 39foggy energy 34 replies
Quickly, before bed. 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. Repeat study came back…
An unremarkable week
week 38steady energy 23 replies
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…
My mother cooks
week 37loved energy 21 reply
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 solved. Starters as a main course,…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
week 36held energy 1
Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable…
No news
week 35steady energy 43 replies
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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.…
Somebody new
week 34warm energy 1
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight, terrified,…
Grip
week 33tired but good energy 12 replies
Quickly, before bed. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Two sessions this week, both…
Walking
week 32tired but good energy 42 replies
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and…
Paired
week 31held energy 54 replies
Quickly, before bed. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Nobody has ever asked me how…
What is your secret
week 30loved energy 21 reply
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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 solved.…
Grip
week 29tired but good energy 1
Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Grip strength has gone off and I noticed…
She reduced it
week 28heard energy 52 replies
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 read nothing. I was…
Laces
week 27quietly delighted energy 11 reply
Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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. Lil…
Both bags, one go
week 27pleased energy 23 replies
Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Got through a full nursery day without her back going. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not…
Steady
week 26fine energy 53 replies
Quickly, before bed. 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 false…
A plain question
week 25steady energy 33 replies
Quickly, before bed. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting…