2017-04-30 – Vegging out.

We are off to Great Yarmouth this morning.  My wife’s sons are taking part in the Tour de Broads – a bike ride in aid of charity.  Her eldest son is riding for Macmillan, and her youngest is riding for Nelson’s Journey.  We are at the start line for their departure just after 9am.  While they are doing the bike ride, we walk around the town, stopping off once for some breakfast, and again at Starbucks for a coffee.  They finish the 25 mile course soon after 11am, and it feels (to me) like we have walked about the same distance.  My walking is better than it was yesterday, but not by very much.  Happily, my tremor, dystonia, dyskinesia, voice, balance, muscular weakness and stiffness are not giving me any great cause for concern.

My wife and I head back towards home after seeing them cross the finish line, and we stop off in North Walsham to grab a few bits and bobs from Lidl.

I intended to get on with the bathroom tiling this afternoon, but I am absolutely exhausted by the time we get through the front door, so we decide on vegging out instead – I light the fire (my wife is feeling the cold) and we watch a film on Netflix.  I just about make it through the film without falling asleep – it’s a pretty close run thing, though.   Tremor and dystonia are starting to bother me, too – probably because I’m so fatigued from all of the walking we did this morning – I self medicate with a little cannabis and crack open a beer.

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