I need to find a supplier of logs fairly urgently – we are going to run out of firewood by the weekend, sooner if the weather gets any colder. We won’t freeze, of course, because we have central heating, but somehow having a fire lit makes you feel warmer just by looking at it. I find an advert on Gumtree, send the bloke a message, and we will have a delivery of logs next Monday, which I’m very relieved about. I split a few logs and bring them into the house for this evening’s blaze.
I have an appointment with my new doctor this afternoon. I finally got around to filling out the application form to transfer from Mundesley surgery to Aldborough surgery, and todays appointment is just an opportunity for my doctor and I to introduce ourselves. He seems genuinely interested in hearing about my experiences with Parkinson’s and deep brain stimulation, and doesn’t bat an eyelid when I tell him that the only medication I take for Parkinson’s is cannabis. I also talk to him about the exenatide drug trial carried out recently, and asked him about prescribing it for me in light of my current rapid symptom progression. He said that if I could get a letter from my consultant stating that “it might be worth a try” then he would be happy to prescribe it for me “off label“, which sounds a lot more promising than I had dared to hope for. My next step, therefore, will be to approach my neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery to see if she would be willing to write to my doctor…