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  • Chapter 29 — The Last One (Probably)

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    Tomorrow I take my last methylprednisolone tablet. I say probably, because life has a habit of proving me wrong on these things. The last time I said I was nearly off the steroids, I picked up a cold from the kids three days before the finish line a...

  • Chapter 28 — Nearly There (Again)

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    Three weeks since the last update. Time has flown by — which is either a sign that life is getting more normal, or that I've been asleep for most of it. Possibly both. The headline is simple: I thought I was nearly off the steroids. I wasn&...

  • Chapter 27 — Dot the Lowercase J's

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    It's been another three and a half weeks since I last wrote one of these. And if I'm being honest — not much has happened. Which, after the summer we've had, is exactly what I was hoping for. The bear remains unpoked. The steroid we...

  • Chapter 26 — Don't Poke the Bear

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    I'll be honest — I've been avoiding writing this one. Not because there's bad news. Quite the opposite. I've been superstitiously, irrationally terrified of jinxing it. Because as of today, the 20th of August, I have been out of...

  • Chapter 25 — Home, Eventually

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    The third time, it turns out, is not the charm. I have now attempted to be discharged from Castle Hill Hospital on three separate occasions. Each time has been its own particular exercise in frustration. Each time I have told myself that surely this ...
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