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Ozzy’s journal
Southern hemisphere. Our summers ruin the cool bag advice.
A rough few days
week 38sore energy 23 replies
Well then. The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the pattern it stopped feeling like…
Not writing about this would be dishonest
week 36flat energy 1
The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the pattern it stopped feeling like something…
Eight minutes and a chair
week 35tired but good energy 32 replies
Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying…
Steady
week 32flat energy 43 replies
Right. 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 did not write this week…
Protein first
week 29steady energy 23 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have…
Laces
week 26quietly delighted energy 51 reply
Well then. 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…
Six airports
week 24knackered energy 53 replies
Right. Hotel fridge froze everything on the first night. Second night: rolled towel, minibar off, thermometer in. Fine. Forty-one degrees and a cool bag that failed. Wrote it…
A wedding
week 22awkward energy 51 reply
Well then. 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. Sunday lunch at my…
Nothing to report
week 19flat energy 23 replies
Well then. 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…
Two flights of stairs
week 16grateful energy 11 reply
Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware…
The list on the fridge
week 13steady energy 53 replies
Right. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on…
Nine minutes
week 10heard energy 1
Well then. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Took the diary in. She read it…
A new bin and a plan
week 7organised energy 12 replies
Right. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Anchored injection day to my shift…
Stayed for the company
week 3warm energy 44 replies
Well then. 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. Went for the…
Beginning, badly
week 2hopeful energy 23 replies
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 the…