My injection day drifted three days and I felt like a failure

I asked for my review appointments to be after a run of days rather than nights, and it made them considerably more useful.

My experience is that this is entirely manageable on shifts and requires more deliberate planning than anybody tells you.

I found that my worst weeks were always the transition weeks, and I now protect those rather than treating them as ordinary.

Something that helped was writing the day of the week on the box, because on a run of nights I genuinely lose track.

What I underestimated was how much the tiredness compounded. A rough week on top of a rota change was much worse than either alone.

I keep everything at home rather than carrying it, and I built my schedule around being at home on that day. Fewer things to go wrong.

Sitting with you on this one.

This is why I read the boring weeks. Thank you for the boring weeks.

My storage question was the one I asked here first, and I got a practical answer within an hour from somebody on a similar rota.

My week has no shape and everything written about this assumes one. Anchoring to a fixed day rather than a fixed time was what finally worked.

Coming back to say the anchor day held through two rota changes and a ward move, which is more than most of my habits have managed.

I do mine on the same weekday regardless of what shift I am on, and I gave up on the time of day entirely about a year ago.