Journal
Aria’s journal
Ten hours of flights a year. Cool bag expert now.
Reduced
week 75settled energy 34 replies
Week in order: Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that,…
Just Wednesdays
week 74flat energy 54 replies
Week in order: Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have…
No news
week 73flat energy 11 reply
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…
Steady
week 71fine energy 53 replies
Week in order: Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is…
Six labelled boxes
week 69organised energy 4
Week in order: New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is the entire system…
My mother cooks
week 67warm energy 51 reply
A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's.…
An unremarkable week
week 65flat energy 33 replies
Three things this week. 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…
A plain question
week 63steady energy 53 replies
Three things this week. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Was undereating without…
Laces
week 61pleased energy 51 reply
Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Got down on the floor…
She reduced it
week 59frustrated energy 4
Week in order: Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. A locum who had clearly read…
Sunday lunch
week 57loved energy 31 reply
Three things this week. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday lunch…
No news
week 55steady energy 43 replies
Week in order: 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.…
A locum
week 53heard energy 22 replies
Three things this week. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Nine minutes. I took three…
Circle tonight
week 51warm energy 24 replies
The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Circle tonight. Eight of us,…
Steady
week 50fine energy 33 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…
An unremarkable week
week 47fine energy 13 replies
Three things this week. 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…
The hotel fridge
week 47organised energy 34 replies
Cool bag, thermometer, thirteen hours. It held at the right temperature the whole way and I have written down exactly which bag and exactly how much ice. Six flights in a…
Two lines a day
week 46organised energy 52 replies
Three things this week. 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. Anchored injection day…
Somebody new
week 44warm energy 44 replies
Week in order: Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. The facilitator stopped the…
No news
week 42flat energy 43 replies
Three things this week. 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…