Clinical · 4 Jan 2026
Member since March 2024
Maryam
Injection Sunday. Reflux Monday. Fine by Wednesday.
Their journal
46 entries, and Maryam is still writing.
Two years, no news
week 115settled energy 3
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, injects Sunday mornings out…
Unremarkable
week 93relieved energy 42 replies
Recording this for the record. A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Two years of stable bloods. Iron and B12…
Nothing
week 78frayed energy 5
The plateau has been going on longer than the part before the plateau. That is an odd thing to sit with. A long flat autumn during Ramadan planning, handled calmly. I wanted…
Paired
week 63held energy 42 replies
Notes for the week. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Paired with hannah_begins. She…
A locum
week 47heard energy 21 reply
Notes for the week. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Asked her own GP the questions she…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Recent check-in answers
Nothing. I have been brisk with myself all week and it has not helped.
What a reference range means, properly, rather than roughly.
Six months since I stopped and it feels both longer and shorter than that.
Told somebody they had helped me. They had no idea.
Buddy
ongoingTwo years, unbroken
Four lines on a Sunday, for two years
Hannah and Maryam send each other four lines every Sunday and have not missed one, including the week Maryam was in hospital for something unrelated.