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Ravi

Type 2 for nine years. Numbers finally moving.

Leicester, UK · Leicester, fifty-four, pharmacist, type 2 for nine years, numbers finally moving.

Their journal

46 entries, and Ravi is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 25 Apr 2026week 80flat energy 12 replies

    Notes for the week. Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have…

  • A locum

    Tuesday 21 Oct 2025week 53frustrated energy 34 replies

    Notes for the week. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Two other medications reduced. A locum who had clearly read…

  • Where the pen lives

    Wednesday 23 Jul 2025week 40organised energy 22 replies

    Recording this for the record. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Two lines a day…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Monday 14 Jul 2025week 39held energy 14 replies

    Notes for the week. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. My buddy noticed something in…

  • A different shape

    Monday 7 Jul 2025week 38rested energy 24 replies

    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 about it. Repeat study…

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13 May 2026 — What is the same as it was last month?

Honestly, it looks like being slightly bored, and I will take slightly bored.

20 Apr 2026 — What kept you up last night?

Poor. Hot, restless and cross about it.

25 Dec 2025 — What are you doing about the dark or the heat?

It has been forty degrees for a fortnight and I have adjusted everything about my week.

3 Dec 2025 — What is one thing about your body you are not going to comment on today?

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