Journal
Priya’s journal
Collecting the small things nobody claps for.
A different shape
week 5rested energy 14 replies
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 better,…
Somebody new
week 4warm energy 14 replies
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 land. Went…
A wedding
week 3warm energy 11 reply
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…
She reduced it
week 3heard energy 32 replies
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 properly,…
How are you doing on a Wednesday
week 2held energy 34 replies
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. Paired up.…
Day one
week 1hopeful energy 11 reply
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 on this…