Restarts · 22 Mar 2026
Member since April 2024
Bea
Here early, here often, mostly reading.
Their journal
46 entries, and Bea is still writing.
Back
week 102nervous energy 24 replies
Back. Eight months away and I arrived braced for a judgement that has not come from a single person. Restarted after a decision she describes in one long careful entry.…
Nine minutes
week 99brisk energy 42 replies
Short one tonight. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Left with a printout I…
A different shape
week 96foggy energy 24 replies
A quiet week. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I…
The limits of yoghurt
week 94steady energy 23 replies
Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I…
A plain question
week 91steady energy 23 replies
Short one tonight. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer. Got…
Milestones
Non-scale · 20 Dec 2024
Two flights of stairs without stopping at the landing
Conversations they started
Number needed to treat as a habit of mind
Research reading group
Absolute versus relative risk, one more time
Research reading group
Getting a prescription transferred between two cities
Students and shoestring
Recent check-in answers
Sorted a repeat prescription that has been on my list since Easter.
A colleague covered for me on a bad day and never mentioned it again.
Woke at four. Lay there listening to the boiler. Same as Tuesday.
Whether the return of appetite means something is wrong. Told it probably does not. Still thinking about it.
Buddy
ongoingSupply
The winter of the shortage
Two Irish members who got through a supply gap by pooling information about which pharmacies had what, and being extremely careful about how they shared it.