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Inês

Small steps only. It is the only way I last.

Porto, PT · Porto, forty-two, nurse, small steps only because that is what lasts.

Their journal

46 entries, and Inês is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Monday 2 Mar 2026week 85content energy 11 reply

    A quiet 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. Reduced…

  • Slept through

    Sunday 15 Feb 2026week 82tired energy 24 replies

    Short one tonight. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is…

  • Nothing happened again

    Thursday 12 Feb 2026week 82flat energy 31 reply

    Short one tonight. 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.…

  • Nothing to report

    Tuesday 3 Feb 2026week 81steady energy 43 replies

    Short one tonight. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. An…

  • Somebody new

    Sunday 18 Jan 2026week 78warm energy 5

    Short one tonight. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four of…

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29 May 2026 — What is one thing you will not compromise on?

I forgave myself for the three-day delay on the injection, eventually, at about the fourth attempt.

22 Apr 2026 — What was the last useful thing a clinician said to you?

Whether my other medication needs looking at now that things have changed.

15 Apr 2026 — Where are you with movement this week?

Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity.

5 Mar 2026 — Is there anything in your body that has been going on for more than a fortnight?

Headache for three days and then I realised I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday.