I have a speech therapy appointment at the community hospital in Norwich this morning, so I drink my mugs of tea (I’ll have my nutriblast for lunch when I get back), walk the dog and then jump into my car and drive to the hospital. My speech has been in decline (again) over the last week or so, the new settings that the neurologist at the NHNN programmed have now “soaked in”, and the result is that my voice is softer, higher pitched and slurred, which is most disappointing. The Norfolk speech therapist agrees that it sounds like I’m having to work much harder to talk, and we spend the appointment working on articulation and enunciation, which helps me develop strategies to help me make myself understood. I feel that I’ll be making another trip to the NHNN sooner rather than later, but I’ll drop the DBS speech therapist an email, in the first instance, telling him that I’m struggling a bit, and see what he suggests.