My wife is off to Hevingham this morning – she has to return our eldest granddaughter to her parents, and then she is going to go to work. I’m going to be lounging around at home, as usual. I remove the fireguard from around the woodburner and dismantle the stairgate at the bottom of the stairs – hastily installed yesterday evening when my wife called to say that our eldest granddaughter was coming to stay for the night. After walking the dog, I take a break and sit down on the sofa to post some links to my latest vlog on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and read The Metro online. Then I clean the kitchen, load the dishwasher, tidy the lounge, split a few logs, fill the log basket and vacuum downstairs.
I turned my neurostimulator off this afternoon. I wanted to see what it would be like without my DBS; see how much my Parkinson’s has progressed since I last turned it off – I think the last time I turned it off was when I made my second tremor control video in April 2017. It didn’t stay off for very long today (maybe a minute) – my tremor is much stronger than I remember it, much stronger in my head and neck, and I was very glad to switch the power back on again. It seems churlish, after that, to complain about (or even mention) the tremor that is breaking through in my left leg – it’s tolerable! Muscular tension in my arms and across my shoulders is pretty uncomfortable, as is dystonia in my right foot, so I self-medicate with some cannabis, which makes it less of an issue.