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Izzy

Between doses, between jobs, between plans.

Watford, UK · Watford, thirty-six, between jobs, between doses, between plans.

Their journal

37 entries, and Izzy is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Thursday 25 Jun 2026week 95flat energy 14 replies

    Right. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. The strange part is…

  • Paired

    Sunday 12 Apr 2026week 84held energy 14 replies

    Well then. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine…

  • Quiet

    Wednesday 25 Mar 2026week 82fine energy 21 reply

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it…

  • No news

    Thursday 5 Mar 2026week 79fine energy 33 replies

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made…

  • I nearly did not write

    Friday 13 Feb 2026week 76flat energy 41 reply

    Well then. 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. Steady. That…

All of Izzy’s journal

Milestones

Conversations they started

Recent check-in answers

20 May 2026 — What is your injection day ritual, if you have one?

Sorted the paperwork for the appeal into one folder in order. It took an evening and it has saved me weeks.

9 Apr 2026 — What are you proud of that has nothing to do with any of this?

Bought myself the good coffee. Small, deliberate, effective.

11 Mar 2026 — What has your sleep been doing?

My sleep has changed shape rather than improved and I still cannot tell whether I mind.

24 Feb 2026 — What have you had to arrange around your medication this week?

New sharps bin and a plan for what happens to it when I move.

Buddy

ongoingCare

When one of us noticed something in the other

Salma noticed the way Izzy had started writing about eating and said so once, kindly, and then stayed. Jonah was involved from the beginning, at Salma’s request.

Izzy and Salma · since July 2025