Non-scale · 12 Jun 2025
Member since August 2024
Keeley
Carer for my mum. Barely thought about myself until now.
Their journal
46 entries, and Keeley is still writing.
Two years, no news
week 88content energy 23 replies
A quiet week. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady, and slowly rebuilding a life. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the…
March
week 66hollow energy 51 reply
Short one tonight. Anniversaries do something to my whole week and I have stopped being surprised by it. Her mother went into a home. A very hard autumn. Six weeks of…
Into town and back
week 44pleased energy 53 replies
A quiet week. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Lifted her mother safely without her back going. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that…
Off the floor
week 35quietly delighted energy 41 reply
Late, and writing anyway. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was…
Six labelled boxes
week 34organised energy 32 replies
Late, and writing anyway. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Batch cooked on a good…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Caring while starting treatment myself
Carers
The pharmacy run when you cannot leave the house
Carers
The fortnight I lost and what I learned
Long covid and fatigue
Recent check-in answers
Two lines a day in a paper diary. That is my entire system and it has twice changed a clinical decision.
Rode two hundred kilometres overnight and I am not going to pretend that was sensible.
I was not kind to myself this week and I am noticing that rather than adding it to the list of failures.
Walked to the shop and back every day this week, which is my current whole programme.