Clinical · 9 Aug 2025
Member since September 2024
Rowan
Rural, four hours from the nearest prescriber. Learning the system.
Their journal
31 entries, and Rowan is still writing.
Nothing happened again
week 87content energy 34 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. Writes about the…
Where the pen lives
week 74organised energy 12 replies
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…
The list on the fridge
week 71steady energy 33 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it…
Anchored to the shifts
week 68organised energy 3
Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens…
The overdue conversation
week 65pinched energy 22 replies
Price went up mid-year and I had a very unglamorous evening with a calculator and a cup of tea. What this has displaced in the budget: the car being fixed, and a holiday. I…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Recent check-in answers
Whether my dose can come down for cost reasons without losing the benefit.
The plateau. Eleven weeks and I have stopped believing anything will change.
Bands in the front room while the kettle boiled. It counts.
I would tell a friend to go to bed. So I am going to bed.
Buddy
ongoingRural access
Four hours from a prescriber, both of us
Rowan is four hours from the nearest prescribing service. Col lives in a van. Between them they have solved most of the logistics problems this site knows about.