Reducing the voltages on my device last night (from 1.95v to 1.5v on the left, and from 2.15v to 1.7v on the right) was a success – I slept through until 7am, only waking once (at 4am) to use the smallest room. When I did wake, it was without the awful arching of my back and the accompanying back pain.
As soon as I’m out of bed I put my device settings back to their daytime values (1.95v/2.15v), get dressed and go downstairs. A shade over 12 million views for my YouTube video this morning. I’d really like to see what the news agency are making of my content today, so I ping them a quick email requesting an update, and then check my email, Facebook messages, YouTube messages, Instagram and Twitter. Bloody hell! I’m knackered already! I have requests for interviews from a Polish Medical Cannabis website, Parkinson’s Life and Truth Society. I agree to all of the requests and ask for them to email me a list of questions, and then I will prepare a single video answering them all. I have a couple of other things I would like to achieve today, so set about doing those before dealing with anything relating to the video.
Walk the dog – done. Popmaster – done! Put an item on eBay – photographs taken, prices researched, but description not written. Package up and send out my kefir orders – done.
Back pain and stiffness has returned (to a degree) since increasing my voltages this morning, but tremor is still pretty much under wraps. Balance is still a bit pants, and so is my speech. Mood and energy are good, and today my motivation is a little better, too. Dyskinesia is still fairly strong, but I’m managing. Dystonia is okay. I’ll leave the settings alone again today… perhaps adjust them tomorrow.
I have a number of direct email messages from people who have watched my video and have questions about it. Answering them is really time consuming, eating into my day, but how can I ignore them? I put the video (and this blog) out there to help people – I can’t ignore their cries for help now.
I also message my contact at the news agency – when I tell him I’ve had 12 million views, even he replied “Wow!”. I’d been led to believe 5 million views would be about right for my video, which I had assumed was typical salesman over-egging it. Now, approaching the end of the day, we are steaming towards 19 million views. I was hoping to have filmed a short update message to answer some of the more common questions and comments today, but still haven’t even made a start on scripting it – tomorrow is another day…