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Ravi’s journal

Type 2 for nine years. Numbers finally moving.

46 entries from 18 Oct 2024 to 25 Apr 2026 · Leicester, UK

  • Stayed for the company

    Saturday 29 Mar 2025week 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

    Sunday 23 Mar 2025week 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

    Friday 14 Mar 2025week 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

    Sunday 9 Mar 2025week 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

    Monday 3 Mar 2025week 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

    Tuesday 25 Feb 2025week 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

    Monday 17 Feb 2025week 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

    Wednesday 12 Feb 2025week 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

    Tuesday 4 Feb 2025week 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

    Monday 27 Jan 2025week 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

    Sunday 19 Jan 2025week 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

    Friday 17 Jan 2025week 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

    Friday 10 Jan 2025week 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

    Sunday 5 Jan 2025week 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

    Monday 30 Dec 2024week 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

    Wednesday 25 Dec 2024week 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

    Wednesday 18 Dec 2024week 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

    Friday 13 Dec 2024week 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

    Thursday 5 Dec 2024week 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

    Saturday 30 Nov 2024week 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…