Clinical · 6 Jan 2026
Member since December 2024
Cato
Blunt, kind, occasionally both at once.
Their journal
46 entries, and Cato is still writing.
Reduced
week 76content energy 14 replies
This 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 journal. Steady.…
A1c down
week 55relieved energy 42 replies
This week: Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Good. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had…
Circle tonight
week 41warm energy 14 replies
This week: Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the…
She reduced it
week 40brisk energy 32 replies
This week: A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Asked the question I had been avoiding…
Steady
week 39flat energy 43 replies
An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Steady. That is the whole entry. Done talking.
Milestones
Conversations they started
The first one I did without thinking about it
Injection anxiety
I have done fourteen and it is still hard
Injection anxiety
Doing it at work in a locked room
Injection anxiety
Recent check-in answers
I would tell somebody starting to write two lines a day from the beginning. Just two.
Booked something to look forward to in six weeks.
Whether the hair thing needs bloods or patience.
I paced properly for once and finished the day with something in reserve.