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Gigi

Nonna cooks. I eat what I can. We manage.

Naples, IT · Naples, fifty-six, teacher, her mother cooks and she eats what she can.

Their journal

46 entries, and Gigi is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Thursday 4 Jun 2026week 98content energy 32 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. Wednesdays are just…

  • A1c down

    Sunday 22 Feb 2026week 83relieved energy 32 replies

    A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. A1c down. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had…

  • Both bags, one go

    Wednesday 10 Sep 2025week 59pleased energy 11 reply

    Evening. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about four years. Walked up the Vomero steps. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Swam. First…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Sunday 11 May 2025week 42tired but good energy 12 replies

    Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were…

  • She read the diary

    Friday 2 May 2025week 41frustrated energy 3

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced one of my other medications. I…

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21 May 2026 — What has been the surprise of the last three months?

That I can hear myself think. I did not know the noise was that loud until it stopped.

8 May 2026 — What is your appetite doing?

My mother cooked and I ate what I could, slowly, and she was happy and I was happy.

30 Apr 2026 — What has been going on for longer than you have admitted?

Hardest part is that I am supposed to be the one who copes.

9 Apr 2026 — What are you proud of that has nothing to do with any of this?

Let somebody help me. That is the whole entry and it was harder than it sounds.