I’m awake before my wife’s alarm goes off at 7.30am, but I don’t get out if bed until 8.30am. I had a reasonable night’s sleep, aside from a little difficulty in actually going to sleep (in spite of some mild self-medication). Left leg tremor is present, dystonia in my right foot is noticeably worse, as is dyskinesia in my right arm. My voltage settings on Group “B” are much lower than the last time I used them, so I increase them to the maximum allowable (2.15v on the left and 2.2v on the right) to stop the tremor and dystonia – if dyskinesia goes through the roof, I’ll have to re-adjust later.
Downstairs, I grab my morning cuppa and Nutriblast (courtesy of my darling wife), give the dog a brisk walk around the village hall playing field and then get ready to go out – I am picking up some fabric sample books from Norwich for my wife’s business this morning.
PopMaster (in the car), a quick trip to Asda to stock up on some fabulous St Peter’s Cream Stout, and then I collect the fabric sample books and deliver them to my wife’s workshop in Hevingham.
Back home, I email the news agency that interviewed me yesterday offering to do a 2nd take – I’m convinced that they won’t be able to use very much of the footage they shot last night… I seemed to be very slow responding to questions, and my speech was halting, which wasn’t helped by the shed-load of tremor that the stress of the situation brought on. I’ve been researching the side effects of DBS for my video, and think that I do have some (mild) cognitive impairment – my thought processing speed and speech fluidity are not what they once were. I hope this isn’t going to get worse. On a more positive note, I had an email from the Cleveland Cannabis College about the script that I sent to them a week ago for approval – they were very happy with it, which is a relief!
I’m still slightly concerned about my motivation, because I haven’t done anything about progressing the script for my new video, although I don’t feel at all negative about it. It’s something that I really want to do, and the content (so far) seems pretty good, but I’m just not getting on with it! Tremor is still there in my left leg, so is dystonia in my right foot – both seem slightly better since I changed my settings this morning. Dyskinesia hasn’t increased substantially, which is a plus! To be monitored!