Permission to cancel, in writing.

Fine-ish is a free magazine for people living with an invisible chronic illness. It will not fix you. It makes a bad Tuesday easier to get through.

Something to point at when the guilt turns up at 4pm — three things you have officially cancelled, in writing, so you do not have to argue with yourself
Never be caught without an answer again — eleven replies to “but you look great” that are not “thanks”
Turn the next unsolicited cure into a game — a bingo card for everyone who mentions their aunt
Decide the day from what you actually have — not from what you wish you had, or what the calendar assumed
Know what a shower costs you before you spend it — so the rest of the day is arithmetic instead of a surprise
Eat properly on a day you cannot stand up — five dinners, no standing, no chopping

No streaks. No dates. No gratitude section.

A LOOK INSIDE

Fill it in from bed.

Tick the things you are cancelling and they are cancelled — no printer, no getting up, no finding a pen. Stick the centrefold where the guilt is.

WHO IT IS FOR

You used everything you had by 10am and there are eleven hours left
You look completely fine in every photograph anyone has of you
Somebody has recently suggested yoga, or their aunt
You are not behind, not lazy, and have not manifested this by being insufficiently grateful

Written by Stephanie, who has bilateral vestibular hypofunction and oscillopsia and spent two and a half years being told it was probably stress.