I really did have a disturbed night last night – my Fitbit confirmed it! I was wide awake at 1.30am (and so was my wife, so I think that I had a disturbed night because she wasn’t sleeping), and then restless time and time again through the small hours. I woke to my wife’s alarm at 7.30am and managed to snooze until 8.30am, when I got up and got dressed.
My wife is having a bit of a lull in business at the moment, so is spending her time delivering leaflets, posting on Facebook, and updating her business webpage. Delivering leaflets isn’t a problem, it’s the technology related activities that cause the stress – she really doesn’t get along with computers. I learn a whole new vocabulary of swear words whilst sitting next to her on the sofa while she’s trying to update pictures on the website and post advertisements to a number of Facebook pages. It’s a relief when she finally finishes and gets ready to go to Hevingham to babysit our granddaughter for the afternoon.
I was hoping to finish the script for my “DBS Side Effects” video today, but it’s just not going to happen. There are a number of problems that my wife encountered during her “morning of stress” that I need to sort out for her, and those take priority! To add to the fun, it’s chucking it down with rain again, and I need to keep an eye open for a break in the weather so that the dog can have her exercise.
I’m still getting tremor on my left side (mainly my leg), but it isn’t so bad that I need to alter my device settings – I’m trying not to adjust it too frequently – I think my symptoms vary on a daily basis in any case, and trying to chase them by changing my neurostimulator settings is muddying the water. My other symptoms seem stable enough, and my dyskinesia may even have decreased a little bit, all on it’s own!
I do, eventually, get around to writing some more of my script, and I’m resigned to not completing it today – will aim for tomorrow evening instead.