A firm lump at the injection site for about ten days. Pharmacist unbothered. Moving further round next time.
Member since December 2024
Zoë
Twenty-six, paying out of pocket, watching every penny.
Their journal
28 entries, and Zoë is still writing.
An unremarkable week
week 80steady energy 51 reply
I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Steady-ish, still budgeting,…
Two lengths, badly
week 67pleased energy 13 replies
Quickly, before bed. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Rode the Dunwich Dynamo. Two hundred kilometres, one very tired…
I nearly did not write
week 64flat energy 51 reply
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole…
An unremarkable week
week 61fine energy 13 replies
Ten minutes then I am asleep. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was…
Anchored to the shifts
week 58organised energy 52 replies
Ten minutes then I am asleep. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in…
Conversations they started
I cannot afford the next three months so I have decided to stop on purpose
Coming off
What the cost has displaced in my budget
Paying out of pocket
Three months at a time versus monthly
Paying out of pocket
The two hours before are worse than the ten seconds
Injection anxiety
Recent check-in answers
My buddy. Four lines on a Sunday night and it is quietly the most reliable thing in my week.
Enough to get to the pool. That was the whole budget and it was well spent.
One hundred weeks of writing these. I only noticed because the archive told me.
Buddy
ongoingNon-scale change
The quiet one and the talker
Priya collects small things nobody claps for. Zoë talks a great deal. The arrangement is that Zoë reads Priya’s list back to her.