Journal
Nettie’s journal
Shipyard shifts and a good union rep.
Just Wednesdays
week 89flat energy 44 replies
This week: Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. Wednesdays are…
Walking
week 84tired but good energy 42 replies
This week: Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and…
She stopped the room
week 82warm energy 1
Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at…
Sunday lunch
week 80warm energy 11 reply
This week: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of…
Quiet
week 78fine energy 21 reply
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 only of…
Steady
week 76flat energy 53 replies
This 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. I nearly did…
Quiet
week 74steady energy 33 replies
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. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…
My mother cooks
week 72warm energy 21 reply
Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…
Starters as a main
week 70loved energy 21 reply
This week: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of…
A wedding
week 68warm energy 41 reply
Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…
Steady
week 66flat energy 21 reply
This week: 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…
What is your secret
week 64warm energy 11 reply
This week: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of…
Three years side by side
week 62pleased energy 51 reply
Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference in a fortnight was not subtle. A1c down. A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which…
The limits of yoghurt
week 62steady energy 33 replies
Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually…
Dreams
week 60foggy energy 24 replies
This week: Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written about it.…
Stayed for the company
week 58warm energy 44 replies
This week: Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of…
An hour on the floor
week 56pleased energy 21 reply
Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire…
Anchored to the shifts
week 54organised energy 32 replies
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. Small logistics win: worked…
Sunday night, four lines
week 52held energy 54 replies
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 fine one, and next…
Sunday lunch
week 50warm energy 21 reply
Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who…