Journal
Kate’s journal
Weeks where tea and toast is the whole plan. Still counts.
Nothing happened again
week 115settled energy 11 reply
Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Hands better, walks…
Thank you
week 98full energy 31 reply
Well then. I am not a person who writes things like this, so I am going to write it once and then go back to being unsentimental. Two years. Wrote the only long entry she has…
Cut it short
week 81tender energy 13 replies
GP checked ferritin and thyroid rather than telling me to take a supplement, which I appreciated more than I can say. Some shedding at month eighteen which frightened her…
I nearly did not write
week 63fine energy 33 replies
Right. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. A long quiet spring with nothing to report, recorded anyway. An unremarkable…
The question I had been avoiding
week 50brisk energy 22 replies
Right. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Blood pressure medication reduced. She asked twice whether that was really…
My sister started too
week 33tender energy 21 reply
Right. My sister started too, three weeks after me. We compare notes badly and lovingly. Her sister said something unkind at a christening and it took a month to shake off.…
An unremarkable week
week 32fine energy 13 replies
Right. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a…
I nearly did not write
week 31flat energy 53 replies
Well then. 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 thing. Steady. That…
Two lengths, badly
week 30quietly delighted energy 41 reply
Right. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it…
An unremarkable week
week 29fine energy 53 replies
Steady. That is the whole entry. 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…
I nearly did not write
week 28steady energy 13 replies
Well then. 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. No news. The dog is…
Two sessions
week 27tired but good energy 22 replies
Well then. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Grip strength has gone off and…
A printout I cannot read
week 26frustrated energy 22 replies
Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I…
Three cool bags and a thermometer
week 25organised energy 12 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…
An unremarkable week
week 25steady energy 23 replies
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, mild…
I nearly did not write
week 24fine energy 51 reply
Well then. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what…
She noticed first
week 23held energy 24 replies
Right. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…
An unremarkable week
week 22fine energy 23 replies
Well then. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a…
Off the floor
week 21quietly delighted energy 31 reply
Right. 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. Tied my own laces standing up. I am…
Two lengths, badly
week 20grateful energy 5
Right. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Got down on the floor and…