I slept well, my wife didn’t. She decides to take the day off work today and attend to things at home. I decide that I’m going to play around with YouTube and video editing today.
I’m feeling very stressed for some reason, and it’s having a big effect on my tremor and dystonia. The last few days I would have said that the tremor on my right side was about 1.5 (on a scale of 1 to 10), and the tremor on my left side was about 3. Today my right sided shakes rank about 4.5, and the left is about 6. It makes using the laptop a little tricky, but I persevere (and win). I’m going to risk another increase in voltage on my left side this evening. I still daren’t increase the right side. The dystonia in my right foot has gone from 2 to about 5, which is a bit of a nuisance.
Mentally, I’m still feeling that I can achieve stuff, so that’s good. My balance seems pretty good also, but my speech is a little strangulated at times.
I get myself out of the house to walk the dog this morning, and again this afternoon. I manage to edit a short video of the dog, compose some background music using GarageBand, and publish the video to my YouTube channel. Since I have never used the iMovie video editing software, the GarageBand audio software, or published a video to YouTube I feel a (well deserved?) sense of achievement. I’m now itching to do some Parkinsons Disease/Deep Brain Stimulation videos, but I need the house to myself to do those – I hate being watched when I’m feeling self-conscious and speaking to camera! I might even have to send the dog out of the room… Perhaps I will do some more work on the scripts this evening.
I increase the left hand voltage on my device to 1.7v, crack open a bottle of Hobgoblin, and self medicate with alcohol and cannabis.