Up at 7.30am following another good night’s sleep.
Tea, Nutriblast, Dog walk and PopMaster set me up for the day.
I’m busily tweeting away from the @parkinsons52 Twitter account this morning, when the phone rings. I am half expecting someone from Baroness Meacher‘s office to call me, following a discussion that I had with the director of Patient Zero Productions the other day, but I’m not really expecting to be called by Baroness Meacher herself! She was completely charming, and we chatted away for several minutes, discussing my use of cannabis, and how ridiculous that it should be unavailable for medicinal purposes. She ended by asking if I would be prepared to talk to the media about my illness and how I use cannabis to treat my symptoms – of course, I said “yes”! She said that someone from her office would be in touch regarding this. It would be really something if I could help in getting the message out there! Watch this space.
I consider filming some more for my “DBS on/DBS off” video today, but decide to work on my script for this week’s vlog instead – I don’t want to be doing it in a rush tomorrow morning. It’s more of a personal vlog this week – someone asked me to talk about my life history prior to my diagnosis with Parkinson’s Disease, so that’s what I’m doing… My script flows, and flows, and flows – I am seriously going to have to trim it down before filming, because I don’t want to make my vlog more than 5 or 6 minutes long. I think that (generally) people can spare 5 or 6 minutes, but anything longer doesn’t hold their attention (that’s just my opinion!).
I take the dog’s brush with us when we go over to the village hall field this afternoon – she’s shedding her coat at the moment, so I’m going to groom her while we are out. I manage to remove about a kilo of fur (okay, so I’m exaggerating, but it was loads of fur!) and that’s a kilo of fur that I won’t have to vacuum up from the rug in the lounge!
I make arrangements to collect my elderly neighbour from his care home in Cromer tomorrow and bring him back to Southrepps so that he can collect some of his belongings from home. My wife and I then visit the Lidl supermarket in Cromer to do our weekly grocery shop.
Then home. Then bed!