Journal
Nettie’s journal
Shipyard shifts and a good union rep.
Awake at four
week 11rested energy 54 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.…
Two flights of stairs
week 9quietly delighted energy 11 reply
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. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not…
Starters as a main
week 6loved 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…
Anchored to the shifts
week 4organised energy 1
This week: 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…
She noticed first
week 3held energy 24 replies
This week: She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…
The first one
week 1hopeful energy 3
This 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 remember and I will ask again at…