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Marnie’s journal

Menopause circle. Finally understanding my own sleep.

46 entries from 27 Jul 2024 to 6 Jun 2026 · Ayr, UK

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Thursday 12 Sep 2024week 7tired but good energy 12 replies

    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 he is annoyingly right. Walked…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Sunday 1 Sep 2024week 6tired but good energy 32 replies

    Late, and writing anyway. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which…

  • Quiet

    Friday 23 Aug 2024week 4fine energy 53 replies

    A quiet week. 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. Quiet.…

  • Flat, whole night

    Wednesday 14 Aug 2024week 3pleased energy 31 reply

    Short one tonight. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I…

  • Standing in the kitchen

    Saturday 3 Aug 2024week 2hopeful energy 51 reply

    Late, and writing anyway. What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. The pharmacist talked me through it…

  • First dose, done

    Saturday 27 Jul 2024week 1hopeful energy 1

    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. Started…