Clinical · 7 Jul 2025
Member since July 2024
Ambrose
Sixty-six. Strength circle convert.
Their journal
46 entries, and Ambrose is still writing.
Nothing happened again
week 99flat energy 22 replies
Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. The strange part is not…
A printout I cannot read
week 80frustrated energy 14 replies
Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Blood pressure medication reduced. Asked the question…
Iron and B12
week 51relieved energy 34 replies
A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Bone density baseline, on his own request. Iron and B12 both low. Treated.…
A new bin and a plan
week 38organised energy 12 replies
A brief account of the week. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Two lines a day…
Grip
week 36tired but good energy 22 replies
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 annoyingly right. Eight…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Taking food home and not making it awkward
Dining out
Work lunches and a boss who notices everything
Dining out
Whisky country and no interest in whisky
Alcohol
Nausea plus wine — a mistake made once
Alcohol
Being the one who does not drink or eat much any more
Dining out
How I ordered at a Nigerian family celebration
Dining out
Recent check-in answers
A birthday and a proper slice of cake, and I did not narrate any of it to myself.
Bought myself the good coffee. Small, deliberate, effective.
Cramp in both calves twice this week. Mentioned it. Having bloods rather than being told to eat a banana.
I put on a coat I had put at the back of the wardrobe out of spite, and it was comfortable.
Buddy
ongoingOver 60
The pair who are both over seventy
Peggy and Ambrose write to each other by email in full sentences and are the only pairing here that has ever exchanged a letter on paper.