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Milestones

Things people can do now that they could not do, and changes a clinician measured. Every one of these links to the journal entry it came from. There is not a weight on this page and there never will be.

Non-scale · 25 Mar 2025

Walked up a hill they had written off

Wilf — Dug the whole plot over in a weekend, aged seventy-two.

Non-scale · 18 Mar 2025

Opened a jar without asking anyone

Poppy — Got off the floor without using the sofa. Wrote two lines.

Non-scale · 17 Mar 2025

Swam in the sea in February

Lil — Walked to Avenham Park and back.

Clinical · 14 Mar 2025

A cycle returned after years of absence

Gwenda — A1c down.

Non-scale · 12 Mar 2025

Played football with both children for an hour

Birdie — Walked to Botany Bay and back.

Restarts · 4 Mar 2025

Restarted after surgery, with the surgical team on board

Sadie — Restarted when a shift pattern changed.

Restarts · 16 Feb 2025

Came back after eight months away

Izzy — Restarted when a job started.

Non-scale · 10 Feb 2025

Led a group walk from the front

Bo — Swam through February. Wrote fifteen words.

Non-scale · 9 Feb 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Holly — Joint pain much better. She credits the oestrogen and says so.

Non-scale · 7 Feb 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Posy — Kneeled to plant bulbs and got up unaided.

Non-scale · 6 Feb 2025

An hour on the floor with the grandchildren, and then standing up

Annika — Slept through the night without waking. Wrote sixty words.

Non-scale · 5 Feb 2025

Tied their own laces standing up

Flossie — Full ten-hour day, Valentine's week, no leg pain.

Non-scale · 25 Jan 2025

Cycled somewhere that used to need a car

Gwen — Full shift, no knee pain.

Clinical · 25 Jan 2025

Iron and B12 treated, and the fatigue lifted

Hedda — A1c down.

Clinical · 24 Jan 2025

A cycle returned after years of absence

Inês — A1c down without ever going above the second step.

Clinical · 19 Jan 2025

Iron and B12 treated, and the fatigue lifted

Duncan — A1c down. He was pleased and hid it.

Clinical · 15 Jan 2025

CPAP mask off after a repeat sleep study

Ruthie — A1c down, and she wrote about what an absolute risk reduction is.

Non-scale · 13 Jan 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Priya — Swam a full length underwater, aged forty-four, having not swum since school.

Clinical · 13 Jan 2025

Told to come back in a year

Hannah — First set of bloods that her GP described as unremarkable, which she had never heard about herself.

Clinical · 11 Jan 2025

A1c moved for the first time in years

Dev — Lipids improved. Wrote 900 words about confounding.

Non-scale · 20 Dec 2024

Two flights of stairs without stopping at the landing

Bea — Cycle regular for the first time in her adult life.

Clinical · 11 Dec 2024

Iron and B12 treated, and the fatigue lifted

Carl — A1c down for the first time in four years.

Non-scale · 13 Nov 2024

Lifted a feed bag properly again

Patrick — Walked the Great Southern Trail at the weekend for a month.

Clinical · 8 Nov 2024

Came off insulin, slowly, with their team

Ray — A1c down. He said it was probably a lab error.

By kind

Time served
7 of them
Restarts
5 of them
Clinical
57 of them
Non-scale
78 of them

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