I wake at a shade before 7am feeling very rough. My sore throat has almost disappeared, but has been replaced by a rather nasty chesty cough. I can’r get back to sleep, so I get up just after 8am. I have lots of aches and pains when I move around – I feel as though I’ve had a good kicking!
My wife offers to take the dog out before she goes to work, but I decline – I really do need to get out of the house more! I walk the dog, and get back indoors as quickly as practical. I bring in a load of logs and light the fire – I’m not going to be straying too far from my seat by the fire today.
I am being interviewed by someone in New York that runs Parkinson’s Regeneration Training programs tomorrow. He has sent me a list of questions that we can use as a starting point, so I want to make some notes prior to the actual interview – I find that I have difficulty thinking on my feet these days, my brain doesn’t work the way that it used to. If I don’t have something prepared, I know that there’s a good chance that he’ll ask me a question and my mind will be a complete blank, which won’t be good!
It’s a grey and wet afternoon in Southrepps, and the dog wants me to take her out – so I put my coat on and take her for a quick walk. I’m not in the mood for throwing the ball in the rain, so as soon as she’s done her business we head back home to the warmth of the fire.