I had a good night’s sleep, my wife did not. We wake when the alarm goes off at 7am, but don’t get out of our cosy bed until 7.30am.
Outside there is no frost on the cars, but it looks bleak and Wintry. It is just as chilly as it looks, as I find out when I take the dog for her morning exercise. It’s trying to snow. I won’t be going very far today, which is just as well, given current energy and motivation. I motivate myself to light the fire, get a basket of logs in from the back garden and devote the rest of the day to keeping warm!
Despite having plenty of sleep last night, I’m still feeling whacked. Probably due to the long day we had on Tuesday – sometimes it takes me a couple of days to recover, if I have overdone things. Tremor is present, mainly in my left leg, but occasionally putting in an appearance in my right arm. Dystonia is bearable. I’m only aware of dyskinesia when I get up from the sofa – my right arm tends to flail around somewhat. My right shoulder is still uncomfortable following my fall a couple of weeks (or more) ago, when I pitched into the sofa as I as trying to sit down – and no, I still haven’t been to see the doctor about it. My left shoulder has now decided to join the party, and is quite painful. It may be because I have slept awkwardly, but I think it is more likely to do with my Parkinson’s. I have met several people with Parkinson’s recently who have mentioned shoulder pain as being one of their main symptoms, and have counted myself lucky not to suffer with it. Perhaps mine is coming out in sympathy! Rigidity, generally, is still a problem. Muscular rigidity and weakness in my arms is still bloody painful! My voice is weak, but it’s been worse. Overall? I’ll live.
I decide to spend the afternoon working on the script for my vlog this week, which is the second part of my “Deciding to have Deep Brain Stimulation surgery” topic. I’m trying to keep it reasonably short – Part 1 was over 5 minutes long, and I’d like Part 2 to be no longer than that, but I have so much to say… I’ll just have to film it tomorrow and see how long it ends up. I’ll try to get my vlog done by lunchtime tomorrow – we have a film crew from the production company that is interviewing me for “The God Plant” documentary, coming to the house on Saturday morning, so I want to spend some time cleaning and tidying the house before they get here (and before my wife does it all). I also need to spend some time reading through the interview questions that they have emailed to me – mild cognitive impairment in the form of lack of fluidity of thought and speech means that I need to be prepared with at least some idea of how I will answer them.