Clinical · 18 Dec 2025
Member since February 2025
Soraya
Access is complicated here. Grateful for this room.
Their journal
46 entries, and Soraya is still writing.
Nothing happened again
week 65settled energy 1
Late, and writing anyway. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, supply permitting. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have…
Two lines a day
week 52organised energy 42 replies
Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the…
Where the pen lives
week 51organised energy 22 replies
Late, and writing anyway. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Two…
An unremarkable week
week 50flat energy 53 replies
Late, and writing anyway. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Nothing to…
Two flights of stairs
week 49quietly delighted energy 21 reply
Short one tonight. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I…
Milestones
Recent check-in answers
Wrote the arithmetic out with no rounding. Seeing it was steadying rather than frightening.
Asked about a lower maintenance dose partly for cost reasons and got a proper conversation about it.
The same shopping, the same walk, the same Tuesday.
My handwriting is neater. I have no theory about this and I refuse to speculate.
Buddy
ongoingInternational
Across a language, in a third one
Soraya writes from Tehran and Marit from Groningen, in English, which is neither of their first languages, and both say that helps.