I was out of bed and downstairs at 7.30 this morning. I felt as if I had been awake for hours, but in reality I had only been awake since just after 6am. I want to make some boxes out of pine tongue and groove boards to go on the shelves that I have built in the dining room fireplace. I sit and plan out how I will construct them, until my wife appears. I make the tea and coffee, my wife departs for work and I sort out the tools that I will require. My tremor seems stronger this morning, and I think I’m going to have trouble making accurate measurements. Dystonia is running riot in my right foot, and that’s very distracting, also. I decide to switch my device settings from Group “A” to Group “B”. There’s the odd tingling sensation as the stimulation settings change over, and then my tremor virtually stops and my dystonia eases substantially. I leave the voltages alone, so they are as they were when I last used Group “B” settings – 1.75v on the left, 2.2v on the right.
I take the dog out for her morning walk, and my balance seems much the same as it was yesterday, my walking seems a little wooden. The dog doesn’t mind, though.
I spend the rest of the day measuring and cutting the timber according to my plans, gluing boards together to make the front, back, sides and base of the box, drilling holes and inserting dowels to hold the whole thing together, and repeatedly getting it wrong and making stupid mistakes. By the time my wife gets home from work I’m on the verge of putting the whole lot in the bin. I resist the temptation and instead stack the product of my day’s labours in a neat pile in the conservatory – I’ll come back to it when I’m in a better frame of mind. I clear away the debris and tools that are littering the back garden, whilst my wife makes our dinner.
Dinner over, bathed, shaved, and a beer in my hand, I’m feeling a little more human, if totally exhausted! We sit and watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which I recently purchased because my wife has never seen it. She wasn’t impressed… I notice that dyskinesia is increasing with the Group “B” settings, so some adjustments could be required tomorrow.