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Norah

Nights, then days, then nights. Sleep circle regular.

Derry, NI · Derry, thirty-four, care home nurse, nights then days then nights.

Their journal

46 entries, and Norah is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Saturday 18 Apr 2026week 90settled energy 33 replies

    Right. The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the…

  • A1c down

    Sunday 23 Nov 2025week 69relieved energy 22 replies

    Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. Fine. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference…

  • Flat, whole night

    Wednesday 11 Jun 2025week 45quietly delighted energy 43 replies

    Right. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Slept seven hours after a night shift for the first time in years. Full shift…

  • Quiet

    Sunday 18 May 2025week 42steady energy 33 replies

    Steady. That is the whole entry. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the…

  • Stayed for the company

    Sunday 11 May 2025week 41warm energy 3

    Right. 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. The facilitator stopped the room…

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30 Jun 2026 — What is your circle giving you at the moment?

Honestly it has been a lonely fortnight. Reading this box is most of my social life at the moment.

28 May 2026 — How are your clothes and your comfort?

I am not going to comment on it today. That was the practice and I managed about two thirds of the day.

10 Apr 2026 — What is one thing you would change about how you started?

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.

17 Mar 2026 — What do you want to stop apologising for?

Nothing. I have been brisk with myself all week and it has not helped.