Clinical · 16 Nov 2025
Member since October 2024
Tulla
Rural GP, waiting lists, patient patience.
Their journal
46 entries, and Tulla is still writing.
Two years, no news
week 82settled energy 24 replies
This week: The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Reduced to…
Three years side by side
week 58pleased energy 41 reply
Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. A1c down. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference in a fortnight was…
Dreams
week 37tired energy 44 replies
Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
week 37held energy 54 replies
This week: Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the…
Laces
week 36grateful energy 4
Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Walked into town and back, which I stopped…
Milestones
Non-scale · 6 Jun 2025
Stood a ten-hour bake with a back that held
Conversations they started
Thirteen hours, a cool bag and airport security
Travel and holidays
Long-haul with a needle phobia
Travel and holidays
Recent check-in answers
I stopped apologising in an email and it took me four attempts.
Got off the floor unaided. Twice, to check.
Ten minutes on the stationary bike because it was raining and I was not going out in that.
Made a batch of six things on Sunday and it saved me on Wednesday.