I am going to film my weekly vlog today – I’m going to be spending much of tomorrow travelling to London and back for my appointment at the NHNN. I’m also going to fit in a visit to the Blues Bar and meet up with my daughter for a quick drink!
I have pretty much finished my script for the video, but my wife came up with a couple of good points that I should make, so I make some amendments to it whilst drinking my tea and Nutriblast.
My wife leaves for work, and I set up the camera and tripod in the lounge, load the script into the teleprompter app on my iPad and rehearse the script a couple of times.
Left leg tremor is very persistent, and I’m glad to be going for a tune-up tomorrow. My right side is pretty much under control, so I don’t think any adjustment is required there. My voice is a little on the weak side today, so I concentrate on my breathing, and enunciate slowly and clearly – it’s so easy to just let it slide, and then I end up sounding like some old drunkard! That would be dreadful, especially since this week’s vlog is all about communication problems in Parkinson’s Disease.
I film the vlog – I’m not too bad in front of the camera this week, but still have 4 or 5 takes before I’m happy with what I have shot – load the video onto my Macbook and edit it in double-quick time. Sub-titles and watermark follow, and then I load it to my YouTube channel ready for publication tomorrow.
My wife and I eat pizza for dinner, and then find a film on Netflix to watch.