2016-06-11 – Open Studios

Amazing!  Both my wife and I sleep well!  Although sleep isn’t unbroken, neither of us lay awake for more than a minute or two.

My wife is going to work this morning because she has a job that has to be finished today.  She’s been working too hard and getting stressed which is really not good, so she has agreed to my suggestion that she takes  a couple of days off next week.

I’m trying to improve my blog today…  Had a comment from a visitor that she wanted to subscribe via email, and couldn’t find a link to do so.  Hmmm!  That would possibly be because I had neglected to consider subscriptions, so I did a bit of research and added a link to subscribe and also links to my RSS feeds.  Can’t get the flaming subscription code to work, though!!  Tried everything I can think of, but failed.  Last ditch attempt – remove the software that enables subscriptions and reinstall it from scratch.  Success!!  That cheers me up somewhat!  Now all I have to do is figure out why I cannot load images to the blog at the moment.

My wife returns around 2pm, and we decide to go out to see some of the Open Studios in our area.  We visited Heather Webster in Smallburgh, and bought a lovely little watercolour of Horsey Mere.  The highlight of the afternoon, though, was Berni Marfleet in North Walsham.  He makes abstract sculptures from scrap metal, and we both really loved his work – his sense of humour comes shining through and puts a grin on your face!  I can definitely see us coming back here sometime to buy something to go in the garden.

By the time we get home it’s food-o-clock and beer-o-clock, so we eat (poached salmon and veggies) and open a couple of bottles of Hobgoblin.  Tremor in my left leg is really bothering me today, even with the calming effect of the beer.  I’m seriously considering increasing the voltage on my left hand side tomorrow – will see how I feel in the morning.  Other than increasing tremor, everything else remains pretty much the same.  My balance hasn’t got any worse, and neither has my dyskinesia or dystonia.  If it wasn’t for the dyskinesia, I’d whack the voltage up a few notches to control the tremor, but I think the voltage on my right side is as high as I want to go at the moment.  Increased voltage on my left previously provoked dyskinesia in my neck, and that was really bloody uncomfortable.  I’m hoping that if I only increase the power a little, I won’t suffer too badly with that again. My voice has been quite weak today (and yesterday, come to think of it) and I wonder if that is due to the lower settings on my neurostimulator at the moment.  I’ve been on the minimum settings for quite a while now, but sometimes the effects of more or less stimulation can take days to emerge.

Time for bed.  Switch off.  Tremor increases in a minute or two and I wonder if I can get to sleep.  I concentrate hard on relaxing my muscles and I’m soon in the land of nod.

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