I’m feeling much more human today – back to normal (almost). My wife and I get up just after 7am, and my wife kindly takes the dog for her morning walk – not that I couldn’t have, but it is an extremely cold morning this morning, so I am glad not to be going out in it! Unfortunately, the dog is as much a creature of habit as I am, and so leaps to her feet excitedly every time I move (between 10am and 3pm), thinking that she is getting another morning walk. At 3pm I relent and take her out to play ball for a little while.
My latest vlog (about Parkinson’s Disease awareness) has been getting quite a lot of comment on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, and has been viewed over 200 times this morning (I only published it yesterday evening), so I’m feeling pleased about that. I have been reading up on YouTube channels, and need to make some changes to my channel in order for my videos to be more easily found by people, so I settle down with my laptop and make the requisite changes.
I find that my old friend, the left leg tremor, returns as soon as I have the laptop on my lap, so I quit fighting it and sit up at the dining table to work. My voice was a little strangled this morning, but it has got better as the day goes by. My balance, combined with the muscle weakness in my legs, is giving my wife (and me, if I’m honest) a few scary moments, but I have managed (so far) to avoid falling.
When I have finished tweaking my YouTube account, I review some of the video that I recorded some weeks ago when I was trying some of the CBD oil that the Polish medical marijuana website sent to me – I intended to edit the review and get it published today, but it’s now almost 6pm and I haven’t even imported the video onto my MacBook, so I expect that’ll be a job for tomorrow now.
I need to make an accurate record of my current symptoms so that I can get on with taking the mannitol that I ordered (if you want to know about mannitol, look here), so I think the best method of doing that will be to switch my DBS off for the morning, and video myself. I have been meaning to film a “DBS on / DBS off” video for quite some time, and I think that now (well, tomorrow) could be as good a time as any!