Clinical · 25 Jan 2026
Member since July 2024
Bertie
Retired teacher. Marking my own homework now.
Their journal
46 entries, and Bertie is still writing.
Just Wednesdays
week 99flat energy 11 reply
A brief account of the week. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this…
A1c down
week 78relieved energy 42 replies
Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. A1c down. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never…
Laces
week 55quietly delighted energy 23 replies
Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Walked the Nidderdale Way in stages. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Walked into town and back,…
An hour on the floor
week 40quietly delighted energy 41 reply
A brief account of the week. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a…
Sunday lunch
week 39loved energy 31 reply
A brief account of the week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently.…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Ferritin, iron studies and the fatigue question
Bloodwork buddies
Nine days. I am not going to be euphemistic about it
Constipation and gut
Recent check-in answers
A stranger held a door and I nearly wept, which tells you what sort of week it has been.
What to do about the appointment where I get nine minutes twice a year.
It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.
Won the appeal at the second attempt. Eleven weeks, four paragraphs, one very patient clinician.