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Milestones

Things people can do now that they could not do, and changes a clinician measured. Every one of these links to the journal entry it came from. There is not a weight on this page and there never will be.

Non-scale · 9 Sep 2025

Walked into town and back, which had quietly stopped happening

Ronan — Played touch rugby for the first time in nine years.

Non-scale · 7 Sep 2025

Off the floor unaided, twice, just to check

Linnet — Helvellyn. The entry is mostly about the light.

Clinical · 6 Sep 2025

Podiatry review with nothing to report

Oskar — A1c down.

Clinical · 4 Sep 2025

Came off insulin, slowly, with their team

Bridie — A1c down.

Non-scale · 23 Aug 2025

Walked into town and back, which had quietly stopped happening

Hattie — Walked to the Quay and back twice in a week.

Non-scale · 21 Aug 2025

Cycled somewhere that used to need a car

Romy — Stood a full day of gallery work.

Non-scale · 21 Aug 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Winnie — Full week of clients without her shoulders aching.

Non-scale · 18 Aug 2025

Both bags upstairs in one go

Maple — Ran the Beltline trail end to end.

Non-scale · 18 Aug 2025

Played football with both children for an hour

Freya — Hiked Esja twice in a week.

Clinical · 17 Aug 2025

Told to come back in a year

Fen — Everything fine.

Non-scale · 11 Aug 2025

Walked into town and back, which had quietly stopped happening

Tansy — Stood a full ten-hour bake without her back going.

Restarts · 11 Aug 2025

Second start, kinder than the first

Aleks — Restarted after the gap and the side effects came back like new.

Non-scale · 11 Aug 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Noah — Cycled to work for a full month of shifts.

Clinical · 9 Aug 2025

Told to come back in a year

Rowan — A1c down, feet checked, first unremarkable review in six years.

Non-scale · 5 Aug 2025

Swam in the sea in February

Bram — Rode the Peak District loop.

Non-scale · 20 Jul 2025

Led a group walk from the front

Esme — Walked up Sainte-Victoire.

Non-scale · 19 Jul 2025

Walked the coast path end to end in stages

Salma — Went swimming with her nieces.

Non-scale · 15 Jul 2025

Walked up a hill they had written off

Lark — Cycled the Prom before work.

Clinical · 7 Jul 2025

Iron and B12 treated, and the fatigue lifted

Ambrose — Bone density baseline, on his own request.

Non-scale · 6 Jul 2025

Stood a ten-hour bake with a back that held

Col — Paddled out at Fistral every day for a fortnight.

Non-scale · 5 Jul 2025

Cycled somewhere that used to need a car

Harri — Coached a full training session without sitting down.

Non-scale · 21 Jun 2025

Back in the pool after eleven years

Ted — Walked into town and back, which he had stopped doing in 2019.

Non-scale · 16 Jun 2025

Stood a ten-hour bake with a back that held

Pam — Walked the full length of the pier and back.

Non-scale · 15 Jun 2025

Got through a wedding without dreading the meal

Carl — Got down on the floor with his granddaughter and got back up.

By kind

Time served
7 of them
Restarts
5 of them
Clinical
57 of them
Non-scale
78 of them

Why there are no numbers here

There is no weight on this page, no percentage and no total of anything. A milestone here is something somebody can now do, or something a clinician measured and confirmed, or simply time served. That is a deliberate choice and we explain it at our design choices.

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