I still lack motivation, but I do feel that I have a little more “get up and go” than I had yesterday. The weather is still pretty dire – grey and windy, but at least it isn’t raining and it seems a little brighter today. I feel a tad rigid this morning – maybe I slept in an awkward position, or perhaps it is just Parkinson’s. Either way, I have significant pain in my upper back and struggle to sit comfortably on the sofa. I decide that a sauna might help, so, after my usual routine (tea, nutriblast, dog walk and PopMaster) I get a few things together and head off to Woodland Holiday Park. The heat certainly helps, and I feel that I am moving a little more freely afterwards, and I’m not in so much pain.
I’m starting work on my weekly vlog today, because I have my meeting with Norman Lamb (my Member of Parliament) tomorrow afternoon to discuss the local health trust’s refusal to permit certain medications for me, so the afternoon is spent deciding on a subject (impulsive and compulsive behaviour in Parkinson’s Disease), and I make a start on researching and writing a script. I grab a few logs from the stack of wood in the back garden (ones that don’t require splitting, because I don’t feel up to wielding a log splitting maul at the moment), fill the log basket, light the fire, have a quick tidy-up and run the vacuum cleaner around downstairs.