We get our deserved lie-in this morning and don’t rise until gone 10am. Still feeling pretty shattered, though. I can’t do late nights like I used to be able to!
My wife makes the tea and coffee and then disappears off to Hevingham to collect our dog, leaving me to catch up with my blog (which I am doing!). I also empty the dishwasher and put the breakfast dishes and mugs in there.
My tremor is bothering me still. It’s mainly in my left leg, although my wife said that she noticed I had a significant tremor in my right hand last night when I was holding a torch while trying to get my mother out of my brother’s van. Possibly because I was incredibly tired at that stage. I put up with it for a while and then decide to increase the voltage on my left side by 0.1v (now 1.8v left, 2.7v right). There is improvement, but I can still feel the shaking. I’ll resist the temptation to add another click or two until later in the day. Tremor in my right side is mainly under control, but it re-emerges from time to time just to let me know it’s still there. The difference between my pre-operation tremor and the post-operation tremor is control. Before my operation the tremor had become so violent that I was unable to control it. Now when I get tremor, I can generally calm it without too much trouble. When I take my mind off it, then it creeps back again. It’s the degree to which it creeps back that determines whether or not I increase the voltage on my neurostimulator.
It’s a fairly bright day here today. My wife returns with our dog, who is pleased to be home and pleased to see me. I let her take me for a walk before the weather decides to change.
I’ve now had some dinner, opened a beer and mildly self-medicated with cannabis, so I’m nicely relaxed and feeling no urge to change my device settings at the moment.