One Step At A Time

  • Chapter 27 — Dot the Lowercase J's

    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

    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

    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 ...
  • Chapter 24 — Phil M. RIP.

    I’ve been in hospital for a month today. I didn’t plan to mark it with anything. There’s no milestone worth celebrating at four weeks — no trophy, no certificate, no moment where someone comes in and says well done, you’...
  • Chapter 23 — Out of Nowhere

    The meeting that followed Tom's early morning visit was, in its own way, just as significant as the visit itself. If the problem was that nobody had full oversight of my case — that decisions were being made in isolation, that information e...