2016-12-05 – A flat battery.

My car has been sitting without being used for almost 2 weeks now.  I tried to start it yesterday, but it had a flat battery – scarcely enough charge left in it to light up the dashboard!  I bring my wife’s car in front of mine, and connect the jump leads.  After a few minutes, my car’s battery is sufficiently charged to enable me to start the engine, and I take it for a quick spin to charge the battery a little more so that (hopefully) I will be able to start it again in the next day or two without having to jump start it.

The next task for today is to clear a space to stack the delivery of logs that I am expecting this afternoon, and rig up a tarpaulin to keep them dry when it (inevitably) rains.  So, I clear a space and rig up a tarpaulin, and then await delivery.

My energy is much better today, but my tremor is acting in defiance of my DBS hardware, breaking through on both sides of my body.  It’s not too much of a problem, though.  Dyskinesia and dystonia are (likewise) bearable.  Balance and walking are ok, too.  My voice is still struggling a bit, but perhaps that’s because I use it too much 🙂  Mood and motivation are (still) pretty damn good!  What I am having a lot of (at the moment) is muscular stiffness and pain – perhaps that is something to discuss with the DBS team at the NHNN, because I know that they can alleviate it by programming my device.  I’ll definitely be talking to them if it persists.

The man arrives with a large trailer full of logs, and dumps them in the road outside our back garden.  Luckily my wife is working from home this afternoon, so she helps me carry the logs into the back garden and stack them against the back wall.  It takes us a solid hour, but when it’s done I know that we won’t have to do it again for at least a couple of months.

I light the woodburner while my wife prepares our evening meal, and then collapse (exhausted) on the sofa.

Time for a beer, methinks.

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