Non-scale · 25 May 2025
Member since June 2024
Peggy
Seventy. Told nobody for six months.
Their journal
46 entries, and Peggy is still writing.
No project
week 97content energy 21 reply
The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less…
Iron and B12
week 70relieved energy 24 replies
This week: Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. A1c down. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a…
Two flights of stairs
week 51grateful energy 52 replies
Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Walked to the shop and back every day for a…
Off the floor
week 43pleased energy 41 reply
Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly,…
I nearly did not write
week 42flat energy 33 replies
This week: 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 whole thing. An…
Milestones
Conversations they started
Waking at four every morning since week three
Sleep and fatigue
Recent check-in answers
Nothing much looks like: injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, normal weekend.
A curry with my brother and I managed most of it, which surprised us both.
Monsoon. Everything is damp including me.
Told somebody they had helped me. They had no idea.
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.