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Dora

Spreadsheets are how I cope. Sorry in advance.

Utrecht, NL · Utrecht, fifty-two, project manager, copes with everything by building a system for it.

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46 entries, and Dora is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Thursday 23 Apr 2026week 105content energy 1

    Three things this week. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, dashboard retired, journal continues. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it.…

  • Into town and back

    Thursday 25 Dec 2025week 88grateful energy 54 replies

    Week in order: Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Cycled to Amersfoort and…

  • She reduced it

    Monday 4 Aug 2025week 68brisk energy 24 replies

    Three things this week. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. A statin conversation she had been avoiding for eleven…

  • Only one way

    Friday 23 May 2025week 57worried energy 42 replies

    The hard part is that I had let myself believe the direction was only ever going to be one way. Lipids moved the wrong way. Took it badly, and wrote the most honest entry in…

  • A plain question

    Thursday 20 Feb 2025week 44practical energy 54 replies

    Three things this week. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Rebuilt her whole week around…

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15 Jun 2026 — What have you noticed about your week that nobody else would?

A cold week and my hands were warm.

19 Apr 2026 — What is your body neutral about?

It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.

27 Mar 2026 — How is work handling this, if they know?

I stood a ten-hour bake and my back held.

11 Feb 2026 — How much water have you had today?

Two weeks of feeling wrong that turned out to be a thyroid dose needing adjusting.

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The spreadsheet and the shrug

Dora charts everything. Ray charts nothing and is faintly appalled by charts. It has worked for nearly two years.

Dora and Ray · since November 2024