Member since September 2024

Yannick

Two languages, three pharmacies, one prescription.

Brussels, BE · Brussels, forty-four, EU civil servant, two languages and three pharmacies.

Their journal

37 entries, and Yannick is still writing.

Nothing happened again

Friday 5 Jun 2026week 91content energy 1

Notes for the week. 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…
Anchored to the shifts

Tuesday 24 Mar 2026week 80organised energy 52 replies

Notes for the week. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and one thing. That is the entire…
Awake at four

Wednesday 4 Mar 2026week 78foggy energy 54 replies

Notes for the week. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off.…
Three years side by side

Monday 23 Feb 2026week 76relieved energy 42 replies

Notes for the week. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Good. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than…
A locum

Thursday 12 Feb 2026week 75brisk energy 32 replies

Notes for the week. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Took the diary in. She read it…

All of Yannick’s journal

Milestones

Clinical · 23 Feb 2026

Told to come back in a year

Yannick — Good.

Conversations they started

Cold storage on a ward
Shift workers9 Jun 2025
What Janoshik reports and what it does not claim
Quality and testing8 Apr 2025
A&E nights and the first month of nausea
Shift workers16 Aug 2024

Recent check-in answers

12 Jun 2026 — What is your sleep window at the moment?

Woke at four. Lay there listening to the boiler. Same as Tuesday.

16 Feb 2026 — What does your week look like on paper versus in reality?

A colleague noticed and asked, and I told her, and it was fine.

10 Feb 2026 — What has changed about your week that has nothing to do with medicine?

It looks like having enough energy to be interested in things other than my own health.

5 Jan 2026 — How did you sleep, in three words?

Two hours, then the baby, then two more.

Circles

Type 2
Glucose, appointments that last nine minutes, and the long game.
Bloodwork buddies
Bring the printout. We read it together.
Europe
Twenty-seven systems, and none of them like the internet says.
Maintenance
Year two, year three, and the part nobody writes about.
Shift workers
For weeks that have no shape. Meets at 3am when needed.
Quality and testing
What analysis can tell you, and what it cannot.

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