We are expecting visitors this afternoon – a friend of a friend of a friend (who has Parkinson’s Disease) has been following my blog and watching my videos on my YouTube channel and would like to talk to someone who is in the same boat.
We also have to prepare for the funeral of my wife’s grandma this week, so my wife wants to go out to buy some new black trousers to wear. I need to make sure that my black trousers will still fit me, find a decent shirt to wear and my black tie. So my wife walks the dog and then we go to Roy’s of Wroxham. Unbelievably, my wife finds some trousers that she likes almost immediately, tries them on (they fit!), buys them and we are back in the car again within the half hour. Once home, I try my black trousers on (which fit!), choose a shirt to wear and locate my black tie. All sorted for Tuesday, then.
My tremor seems to be behaving itself a little better today, and my voice isn’t quite as strained as it has been the last couple of days. My walking is also not as bad as it has been, although it is still a little wooden.
I split some logs, fill the log basket and light the fire while my wife is busy walking the dog (again), cleaning upstairs and doing the laundry. Then I vacuum downstairs, my wife mops the kitchen floor and we are ready for our visitors.
They arrive, and we spend a pleasant hour or two chatting about our experiences with Parkinson’s Disease (both from the perspective of being a person with Parkinson’s, and being the partner of someone who has Parkinson’s), our (largely negative) experiences of the health professionals on whom we rely, and the various medications that we have had experience of.
After they have departed, we have some dinner and settle down in front of the telly (and the fire) for the evening.