I switched back my device to my latest settings (Group ‘A’) before I went to sleep last night so that it doesn’t result in my thrashing around and shouting out in my sleep like it used to do. I slept well, only waking briefly at 4.30am. I get up at 9am. Dress. Go downstairs.
I’m feeling a little better than I have been – as though I could possibly achieve something today! If you have been reading my blog for the last few days, you’re probably thinking “about time, too!”. Me too.
I jump start my car from my wife’s car before she goes to work (my car has been sitting unused for so long that the alarm has flattened the battery) and have a quick spin around the block to charge it up a little. I walk the dog. I check my email. Check Facebook. Read The Metro online. Tremor is getting stronger in my right side, so I switch my device to Group ‘B’ again – tremor subsides. The post arrives, and in it is an adjustable spanner I ordered to fit the gas bottles that run the boiler (no mains gas in our village) – I’ve been holding off changing over the empty bottle because I almost rounded off the nut last time. I change over the empty bottle without rounding off the nut any further! I rang Calor and ordered a couple of gas refills! I’m on a roll now.
I actually listed the stove pipe on eBay! I fill the dishwasher. Put the dishwasher on. Empty the dishwasher. Walk the dog (afternoon edition). Vacuum upstairs. Vacuum the hall , stairs and landing. Vacuum the lounge.
I’m exhausted, but happy that I’ve been able to do stuff today.
Dyskinesia, which has been slowly returning in my neck, returns to my right side so I return to Group ‘A’ settings on my neurostimulator. Perhaps this is the solution until I can afford to go back to the NHNN for a re-tune… keep switching back and forth between the two settings groups on my device. Because it seems to take a good 24 hours for any problems to emerge following a change in settings, perhaps I need to book appointments on two consecutive days in future – I’ll think on that one.