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Viv

Reflux was my whole first year. It got better.

Luton, UK · Luton, forty-five, dental receptionist, reflux was her entire first year.

Their journal

46 entries, and Viv is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Saturday 23 May 2026week 97content energy 1

    The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady, sleeping flat, still funny about it. Two years. My only…

  • Back without making it up

    Sunday 8 Feb 2026week 82tired but good energy 3

    Right. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is annoyingly right.…

  • Steady

    Saturday 24 Jan 2026week 80flat energy 23 replies

    Well then. 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. Quiet. Injection Tuesday,…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Monday 12 Jan 2026week 78brisk energy 52 replies

    Well then. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary in. She read it properly,…

  • Where the pen lives

    Sunday 28 Dec 2025week 76organised energy 32 replies

    Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is the entire system and it has twice changed a clinical decision. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to…

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Recent check-in answers

1 Jun 2026 — What are you not sure about?

Whether I should be having my kidneys checked more often.

4 May 2026 — What has the light been like where you are?

Snow, and the delivery did not come, which is the rural version of this problem.

24 Apr 2026 — Which symptom have you stopped noticing?

Third day after a step up is always the worst. Knowing does not help but it does make it survivable.

21 Apr 2026 — What do you need this week?

Told somebody they had helped me. They had no idea.

Buddy

ongoingA scare

The week it got frightening

Bo went to hospital with abdominal pain. Viv was the person who told her to go, and has been careful ever since about how she tells that story.

Viv and Bo · since April 2025