I struggled a little bit with dropping off to sleep last night, lying wide awake for over an hour. When I did eventually sleep, I slept well and woke around 5.30am. I managed to sleep again until 8.45am, so I feel well rested.
Motivation is the biggest problem at the moment, because I simply don’t have any. My get-up-and-go has fallen flat on it’s arse. I have a list of tasks for me to do – most of them are incredibly simple and should pose no problem for me to achieve – but I’m not even going to list them here, because I know I’m not going to achieve any of them today.
Correction! I’m only going to achieve two things today – the dog’s morning walk and the dog’s afternoon walk. After I return from the morning walk I decide to do some fiddling with my neurostimulator settings to see if I can improve my mood. My latest settings (Group ‘A’) are great in that I no longer suffer with the dyskinesia in my right side, but tremor has crept back fairly quickly. I feel that tremor control was better on my old settings (Group ‘B’), so I activate Group ‘B’ on my device. I can feel the new (old) settings kick in with a bit of a tingle and my tremor is instantly better. I am at the upper limits of adjustment within Group ‘B’ – left side is 1.7v, right side is 2.0v. I will watch out for dyskinesia, but for the moment these settings are superior.
I pop round to my neighbour’s to scrounge a 1st class stamp (our Post Office is still closed following the robbery on Monday) and while I am chatting to him I do notice a little dyskinesia in my neck – very minor and not painful (or even uncomfortable) but something to keep an eye on.
So, we will be getting a woman prime minister. Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are the 2 candidates in the race for the top job. The best of a fairly poor field, but I don’t know enough about either of them to favour one over the other. I believe that Theresa May has been an absolute disaster in the Home Office, so she’ll probably get the job!
When my wife returns from work, we go food shopping in North Walsham. While we are out I’m aware that dyskinesia is becoming more of a feature and the dystonia in my right foot is also more uncomfortable, so no doubt I’ll soon have to go back to Group ‘A’!