I received an email overnight from the Polish Medical Marijuana website, confirming that they are happy with my script for the interview video that I am going to be filming today. The Truth Society haven’t replied yet, but I’m going to go ahead and film it anyway.
I have to wait for the washing machine to finish it’s load first (so I don’t have a soundtrack incorporating the sound of a fast spin cycle), so I take the dog out for a walk, and then listen to PopMaster before making a start.
I set up the camera, tripod and radio microphone, load the script into my teleprompter app on my iPad and then I’m good to go. I have a dozen interview questions to answer, and I film them with varying success! Some answers I manage to film in a single take, others I fluff my lines so many times, it’s ridiculous! Anyway, eventually I am happy with my answers, and I set about transferring the video to my MacBook, so that I can edit it.
My nephew arrives just as I am completing the process of transferring the video to my computer – he lives and works in Nottingham, but is on holiday this week, so naturally wanted to visit his favourite uncle 🙂 He entices me over to The Vernon Arms for a beverage, not that much arm twisting was needed. I’m very aware of my left leg tremor, and the fact that there’s no further adjustment available within my current (Group “B”) settings – perhaps a little self-medication of the cannabis variety will be in order this afternoon… Dyskinesia has abated somewhat, I’m relieved to say, and dystonia remains fairly well controlled. Balance is still a bit rubbish, mind you.
My nephew departs, and I resume work on the interview video, but I’m seriously behind with it now. I had wanted to finish the edit and publish it to my YouTube channel this evening, but it just ain’t gonna happen now! My wife returns from work, and we have dinner fairly sharpish – we have to go out to Spixworth to drop off a birthday present to my wife’s sister-in-law, and we also have to pick up a Nintendo Wii that my wife has purchased from an advert in Gumtree – she read on a Parkinson’s website that the Wii was very beneficial for improving balance! Anything is worth a try!