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Six labelled boxes
Priyaorganised energy 4
A gentle week, mostly. 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…
Standing in the kitchen
Katewired energy 2
Well then. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. So. First one done. I had been…
What is your secret
Priyaawkward energy 3
A gentle week, mostly. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still…
An unremarkable week
Katesteady energy 4
Right. 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,…
I have started
Maryamwired energy 4turning point
Recording this for the record. What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. Knew the pharmacology…
Day one
Hannahhopeful energy 3turning point
I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. Did the first injection in the bathroom…
Off the floor
Katequietly delighted energy 1
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. Right. Bed.
A different shape
Priyarested energy 1
A gentle week, mostly. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not…
I nearly did not write
Mattsteady energy 3
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. I nearly did not…
Day one
Katenervous energy 5turning point
Well then. So. First one done. I had been carrying the box around the house for four days like it was something I had borrowed and needed to give back, and in the end…
Somebody new
Priyawarm energy 1
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it…
Dreams
Katerested energy 5
Right. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Repeat study came back and…
A wedding
Priyawarm energy 1
Sitting down to this properly tonight. Starters as a main course, permanently. No explanation offered, none requested. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze…
Paired
Kateheld energy 4
Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one,…
She reduced it
Priyaheard energy 3
Sitting down to this properly tonight. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Took the diary in. She read it…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
Priyaheld energy 3
Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it.…
Beginning, badly
Matthopeful energy 3turning point
This week: The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop…
Day one
Priyahopeful energy 1turning point
What I keep coming back to is how long it took me to get here. Not the medication — the asking. Years of that. One of the founding six. Wrote the first journal entry…