Journal
Duncan’s journal
Practical to a fault. Ask me about cool bags.
Two years, no news
week 101settled energy 53 replies
Week in order: The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady, still testing things. Wednesdays are just…
Where the pen lives
week 69organised energy 32 replies
Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Wrote the storage and cold…
Eight hours of difference
week 54organised energy 3
Three things this week. Time difference of eight hours and a weekly dose. Moved it forward by two hours a day rather than all at once, on my GP's suggestion. Nineteen-hour…
Three years side by side
week 37pleased energy 31 reply
Three things this week. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference in a…
Unremarkable
week 36pleased energy 33 replies
Three things this week. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. A1c down. He was pleased and hid it. Iron and B12 both…
Circle tonight
week 36warm energy 24 replies
Week in order: Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I…
No news
week 35flat energy 51 reply
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.…
Two lines a day
week 34organised energy 42 replies
Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a…
Laces
week 33pleased energy 11 reply
Three things this week. 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…
An unremarkable week
week 33fine energy 43 replies
Three things this week. 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…
Dreams
week 32foggy energy 54 replies
Three things this week. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not…
What is your secret
week 31awkward energy 11 reply
Three things this week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate,…
Grip
week 30tired but good energy 32 replies
Week in order: 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…
Starters as a main
week 29awkward energy 31 reply
Week in order: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long…
The list on the fridge
week 28steady energy 13 replies
Week in order: I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own. Was undereating…
A plain question
week 27steady energy 23 replies
Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and…
Paired
week 26held energy 44 replies
Three things this week. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. My buddy noticed something…
A rough few days
week 25flat energy 53 replies
Week in order: Bad week and I am writing it down anyway, because a journal that only contains the good weeks would be a lie and no use to anybody reading it later. A rough…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
week 24held energy 14 replies
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. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines…
Eight minutes and a chair
week 23tired but good energy 32 replies
Three things this week. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps…