Journal
This is journal, journey is neither recovery or decline, but a real-time record of living through pain, medication, fatigue, and change.
Nothing is rewritten or softened.
Pain, sleep, mood, movement, and treatment are tracked honestly over time. Not for performance or narrative — simply to preserve patterns, evidence, and the reality of daily survival.
Entries can seem detached and that is the nature of the beast, you know when your arm is broken but not when your mind is!
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What Could Have Happened
My trauma isn’t only about what happened. It’s also about what I genuinely believed could happen, and the lasting impact that belief left.
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Protected: 💧 My Body & Fluid — Simple Explanation
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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First Weekend Break with a Catheter
First weekend away with a catheter: travel, family, mishaps, adaptation, exhaustion, and learning that life still goes on.
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Miles per hour – Urine per mile
180 miles today. Catheter attached. Life has changed what I measure, but I’m still moving forward. Different measurements, same George
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Jaywalking Neural Pathways
Neural pathways feel like signals crossing lanes too fast, thoughts colliding, emotions overloaded, everything moving without waiting its turn.
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Andrea
Andrea is steady presence and quiet strength, a rock in life, remaining constant when everything else feels uncertain around me.
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More on Life in Millilitres
Millilitres become the language of living after A&E, where life shifts from assumption into measured bodily reality and awareness.
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A Week I Would Rather Not Repeat
Scans, catheters, sleepless nights, uncertainty and exhaustion. Not the week I wanted, but I am still here today.
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Urology – Trial Without Catheter
Today confirmed the urinary retention is real, ongoing, and unresolved. Disappointing emotionally, but finally moving toward proper investigation and answers.
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Late Night Before Urology
The night before urology: uncertainty, exhaustion, hope the catheter might come out, and fear that things may not be simple.
