I slept right through until 8.30 this morning, and feel nicely rested. I have left leg tremor on waking, and by the time I’m downstairs I have quite a bit of tremor in my right arm as well. I’ll wait a little while before adjusting to see if things are going to calm down of their own accord.
My son and daughter have bought tickets for my wife and I to see Jimmy Eat World at the Guildhall in Southampton this evening, so we are driving to Southampton via Stevenage (to collect my daughter en-route) this afternoon, so I’m hoping that the Friday afternoon traffic is going to be kind to us.
Before we leave for Southampton, we have to drop our dog off at my wife’s youngest son’s house – he and his girlfriend kindly agreed to look after her while we are away – and then we brave the Friday afternoon traffic, which is heavy, but not as bad as I had feared. Thankfully my wife is driving, so I relax in the passenger seat and manage to bring my tremor and dystonia under control again without having to tinker with the settings on my neurostimulator.
We pick my daughter up in Stevenage, and manage to get to the middle of Southampton and parked with the minimum of stress, although my balance appears to have suffered from sitting in the car for almost 7 hours (I have to cling to the side of the car for support for a moment or two when I get out).
The gig is brilliant, but all to soon we are back in the car and faced with the return journey. We arrive home just before 3.30am and collapse into bed!