Another day of writing scripts, this time it’s for my weekly vlog. I have decided to talk about forced exercise for Parkinson’s, since that is a subject that is in the front of my mind at the moment. I manage to find lots of information about it online, but most of it is in quite technical language and I like to make my videos to be informative yet accessible. I spend a lot of time extracting the essence of the studies, and trying to put them into my own words (which isn’t always as easy as it sounds).
I change my neurostimulator over to group “A” settings because I feel that my voice is slightly better on those settings, but I still sound hoarse and indistinct (to my ears) and I have loads of re-takes when I’m trying to video myself. I feel that if it weren’t for the fact that I put subtitles on all of my videos, then I would struggle to understand what I’m saying (or perhaps that’s because my hearing is also not what it once was?).
By the time my wife arrives home from work, I’m ready to upload the completed video to my YouTube channel, and my voice has deteriorated even further – to the point where I am trying to talk to my wife, and nothing comes out. I try changing my device back to group “B” settings, but I think that fatigue is the culprit today (I didn’t sleep well last night). I didn’t have any cannabis yesterday, and that’s the price I paid…