2016-06-12 – Shave and a haircut

Slept well and woke at 6am.  I have quite a lot of tremor going on this morning, and switch on my device well before I decide to crawl out of bed.  I haven’t upped the stimulation on the left as yet, and think I’ll hang fire and see how the day goes.

My wife disappears off to go swimming with our granddaughter, so I take the dog for a morning walk and then sit down, drink tea, scoff biscuits and check my email.  My tremor is still strong in my left leg, so I decide to increase the voltage by 01.v – now 1.2v on the left, still 1.6v on the right.  I feel the tremor decrease almost immediately.  Hope the dyskinesia in my neck stays away.  I’d really love to increase the voltage on the right hand side as well, but I know it will make the dyskinesia in my right arm unbearable.

My car has been sitting on the road, unused, outside our house for the last 7 weeks.  My wife drove it just the once, at my request, to keep everything from seizing up.  I have been out and started it on a couple of occasions, but it hasn’t been started for a couple of weeks now, and the battery is almost completely dead.  My wife returns, and I nick her car to jump start mine.  The engine starts, and sounds so nice I just have to take her for a spin.  It feels good to be driving again – the first time in about 3 or 4 months.

My wife and I are going to dinner at her eldest son’s house this evening, and before we leave home I decide I need to spruce myself up a little – my hair is getting quite long (for me) and my stubble is fast becoming a beard.  I usually cut my hair very short – grade 1 – and I’m a little bit nervous about running the clippers over my newly misshapen head.  My wife offers to do it for me, and I gratefully accept.  It feels good to have short hair again.  I also have a shave.  Always a wet shave – never used an electric razor in my life.  It’s quite a challenge with the dyskinesia but I manage to make a half decent job, with only minimal bloodshed, and look and feel a bit more human.

When we get home and go to bed, I switch my device off as usual.  My tremor returns pretty much immediately, and for the first time I really do struggle to relax my muscles and get to sleep.  I get there eventually, but I was thinking I’d have to switch the power back on.  It just goes to show how my Parkinson’s is continuing to progress in the background…

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