I’m not particularly keen to get out of bed this morning – I’m feeling tired from a long day yesterday. We didn’t get back home until just after 11.30pm, and it was after midnight by the time we got to bed. You’d have thought that getting off to sleep after such a busy day would have been a piece of cake, but my mind won’t shut up and I seem to be laying awake for ages. I get up at 8.15am, just as my wife departs for work – it’s Friday, so it’s vlog day and that means that I have loads to do.
My wife is picking the dog up from her parents and bringing her home with her this evening, so I am excused dog walking duties today. I have an appointment with the nurse at my doctor’s surgery this morning (to review the results of my recent lung function tests). My lungs are working just fine, so I don’t have asthma – but I’m still wheezing on occasion and they don’t have any explanation for it, other than that it could be Parkinson’s related…
I notice that I have given myself a couple of nasty bites to the inside of my mouth since my neurologist adjusted my neurostimulator yesterday – I seemed to have been doing this much less, recently, so I do hope that the adjustment hasn’t started it off again. My neurologist made the adjustments to the group “A” settings on my device, so the current settings (pun intended) are: 2.90 volts on the left side, and 2.45 volts on the right side. She has also increased the window, which means that I can adjust the voltage upwards or downwards, should I find it necessary to do so.
I have an easy vlog to do this week – it’s about my trip to London yesterday – so scripting it is a breeze, and I get it filmed, edited, uploaded to my YouTube channel and published before my wife returns home from work.
Ian, I wonder if your current tiredness could be related to your recent stimulation changes? I’ve had DBS for dystonia and even minor stimulation changes bring mental fatigue and lack of motivation/enjoyment in things – this especially day 2/3, and then it starts tapering off and I start getting on top of things again. I’ve always wondered how some people manage to live with constant changes in settings as it really wipes me out, but it could be an individual thing of course. Wishing you all the best and thanks for sharing so many helpful points, Anke
Hi Anke
Thanks for your comment. I hadn’t considered that, but it is a possibility – I have had several changes in the past week, and had put my mood changes and tiredness down to travelling to London and having a couple of long days. I’ll monitor it!
Cheers,
Ian