I am doing a video remake today. I have been asked to remake my original (viral) video to show the effect of cannabis upon my Parkinson’s tremor in real time – i.e. showing my tremor gradually becoming calmer after I have taken the cannabis. I have written most of the script already, I just need to review it and then rehearse it.
I take the dog for her morning stroll, and then setup the camera and tripod in the lounge, load the script into the teleprompter app on my iPad and setup the radio microphone – I’m all ready to go!
I switch off my DBS for this video, and it’s an unpleasant reminder of how bad things are without the electricity. I film myself in a single take – it just shows you how much my DBS affects my voice; I bank on about a dozen (or more) takes when I film my weekly vlogs, because of my voice being weak and strangling my sentences. Filming finished, DBS back on, what a relief!
My tremor (with DBS on) is pretty well contained today, as is dystonia. Dyskinesia is manageable (as usual). Balance and walking aren’t too bad. I’m still aching all over from Sunday, and hoping I’ll be feeling better by the end of the week.
I load all of the footage onto my MacBook, and get a move on with the editing. By the time my wife has got home from work, it’s pretty much finished aside from a little “tarting up”, which I have decided to do tomorrow morning. I ask my wife for her opinion, and get a “thumbs up”, which is always nice.
Dinner, beer, an episode of Homeland on Netflix, and an early (ish) night.