I have decided to make my weekly vlog on the subject of environmental toxins and Parkinson’s Disease. This is a subject that is close to my heart, and also one that (I think) was requested by someone last week (but I cannot find the request!). So today I will be mainly researching and filming!
I have a fair amount of tremor breaking through on both sides today, which makes using my MacBook a bit of a challenge – I keep double-clicking on things that I don’t mean to double-click on, and it’s driving me bonkers. I persevere and manage to research my subject, and then write a script for my video. I rehearse my script and time myself – I like to keep my vlog to around about 5 minutes, and my timing confirms that I’m almost bang on the 5 minute mark.
I load the script into the teleprompter app on my iPad, set up the camera and tripod and film myself – I’m keen to finish work on my vlog by the time my wife gets home from work. My voice is a little better than usual, and I manage to shoot the footage I require without too much trouble. My only problem today is tremor, which gets much worse when I’m in front of the camera. I consider increasing the voltage on my neurostimulator, but I am concerned that I might impact my voice, so I decide to put up with a bit of shaking.
I load the video onto my MacBook and edit it in double-quick time. Even allowing for the correction of a minor error that I discover just before uploading the video to my YouTube channel, I have finished work by the time my wife gets home and I’m pleased about that.
We go grocery shopping at Lidl in North Walsham, watch an episode of Homeland on Netflix when we get home and then have an early night.