My wife disappears off to work sharpish this morning – she’s combining a day of book-keeping for her soft furnishings business with keeping an eye on her eldest son (who lives next door to her workshop) and making sure that he doesn’t overdo things following his operation on Tuesday.
I slept well, only briefly waking around 4am, and again (for a visit to the smallest room) around 6am – I remembered to turn down the stimulation on my device (to 1.9v on the left, 1.7v on the right) before getting into bed last night, thus avoiding the uncomfortable dyskinesia that I experienced previously on these settings. Importantly, I remember to set them back to their higher daytime values (1.95v left, 2.3v right) as soon as I get out of bed, thus avoiding the tremor breakthrough that I experienced yesterday morning!
I have an email from the Polish website this morning, telling me that they thought my review was great. I’m pleased about that – having made the video, I was going too publish it in any case, but if they hadn’t liked it, then I would have had to remove the credit to them for supplying the sample product! I publish it on Youtube, and post links to my review video on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. It amazes me how quickly people start to view my work, and after just a few hours it has been viewed 100 times – quite amazing for a video which has (I would have thought) very limited appeal!
I was still suffering with a sharp pain in my right knee yesterday, and was on the verge of conceding that perhaps it wasn’t related to my Group “B” settings after all (I changed over to Group “A” a couple of days ago to see if that would affect it) – I resolved (yesterday afternoon) to stay on Group “A” settings for just another 24 hours before switching back to Group “B”. Sitting here this evening, typing my blog, toasting myself in front of the woodburner, I suddenly realise that I haven’t had a single instance of knee pain today, and I’ve done all of the usual stuff – walked the dog twice, brought in the logs, lit the fire, vacuumed downstairs, emptied/loaded the dishwasher, been up and down the stairs – so perhaps it IS settings related after all. It could be coincidence, but I’m not a great believer in coincidence – things usually happen for a reason, cause and effect… I’ll be leaving my settings alone for at least a few more days now – see if knee pain returns.
I had an email from one of my blog readers this morning, enquiring about our dog, wanting to know what kind of dog she is. I said I would put a picture of her on today’s post – so here she is, Willow the Black Labrador, who can also be found as a video star on my YouTube channel!