I slept really well last night – cannabis is medicine! I am going to spend the day editing video, and I’m looking forward to it (with some trepidation) – I think there’s a lot of editing to be done in turning my captured footage into a watchable video.
I make the tea and coffee. My wife makes the Nutriblasts. Then she is off to work, and I wait for a break in the weather (it’s chucking it down) so that I can take the dog for her morning constitutional. It stops raining just after 10.30am, and we make a dash for it before the heavens open again.
I go through the lengthy process of selecting the best “takes” from yesterday’s filming, and import them onto my MacBook for editing. There are still a few shots that I am missing, and I (briefly) consider filming again today, but then decide to try to get the main body of editing completed, and get the additional shots tomorrow (they involve me turning my neurostimulator off again, and I don’t feel like doing so today!).
I take a break mid-afternoon (when the dog starts looking at me hopefully whenever I move), and take her for another walk. At least it has stopped raining now.
I receive an email from the DBS team, agreeing to an appointment for reprogramming my neurostimulator on 10th March – fantastic! I book train tickets for my wife and I. I am now definitely going to pay Karl Sterling a visit at his Parkinson’s Regeneration Training workshop while we are in London (and have a sneaky beer or three in the Blues Bar afterwards!).
I haven’t made as much progress as I had hoped to make, but any progress is better than no progress at all. At least my tremor is behaving itself today, my balance and walking are pretty good, my motivation and energy are better than they have been of late, and my dyskinesia and dystonia are both under control. All in all, not a bad day!