Journal
Ravi’s journal
Type 2 for nine years. Numbers finally moving.
Stayed for the company
week 24warm energy 44 replies
Recording this for the record. Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and…
Grip
week 23tired but good energy 12 replies
Notes for the week. 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…
Somebody new
week 22warm energy 44 replies
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 for the practical answers and stayed…
Back without making it up
week 21tired but good energy 52 replies
Recording this for the record. 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…
Awake at four
week 20tired energy 54 replies
Notes for the week. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written…
An unremarkable week
week 19flat energy 41 reply
Steady. That is the whole entry. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has…
Paired
week 18held energy 24 replies
Recording this for the record. 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…
Nothing to report
week 17flat energy 33 replies
An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my…
Three years side by side
week 16relieved energy 34 replies
Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is…
She stopped the room
week 15warm energy 44 replies
Notes for the week. 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. Somebody…
Iron and B12
week 14pleased energy 11 reply
Notes for the week. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a…
Come back in a year
week 14pleased energy 13 replies
Recording this for the record. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. A1c down for the first time in four years. Three…
Two sessions
week 13tired but good energy 32 replies
Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren…
No mask
week 12foggy energy 24 replies
Recording this for the record. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything…
Across the day
week 11steady energy 53 replies
Recording this for the record. 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…
Laces
week 10quietly delighted energy 51 reply
Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That…
Steady
week 9steady energy 31 reply
Notes for the 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. Steady. That is the…
Circle tonight
week 9warm energy 54 replies
Recording this for the record. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room…
I nearly did not write
week 7fine energy 53 replies
Recording this for the record. Steady. That is the whole entry. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The…
Stayed for the company
week 7warm energy 4
Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual…