I have plenty to be getting on with this week – the stack of my junk in the lounge bears testimony to that. I need to take photographs of everything, write descriptions for each item and then post them on eBay and Gumtree. Some things are very difficult to put a value on, so I guess I’ll just put those things on eBay as an auction and hope for the best. I’m feeling very fatigued (again) today – very little energy, and no great enthusiasm for anything at the moment.
I take the dog for her morning walk, and then slump on the sofa in the lounge and listen to PopMaster. In spite of my 2 daily excursions with the dog, I don’t get a great deal of exercise – not because I’m lazy (honestly!), but because it takes so much out of me. I have one of these Fitbit fitness tracker watches, because a friend of mine recommended it to me as a way of keeping track of how much (or little) exercise I am doing, and as a means to spur me on to do a little more. My wife has one, also, as does her eldest son, her youngest brother, her ex-husband and my daughter. The software enables each of us to see how well everyone else is doing, so yesterday I looked at how many steps each of us takes on an average day – my Fitbit tells a story of my Parkinson’s Disease and the impact it has upon my life. My wife’s ex-husband does a huge number of steps, averaging 19,826 per day – he works on the roads for the local council, so I guess it’s to be expected that he does a lot of walking. Next on the leaderboard is my wife’s eldest son, who clocks up a daily average of 15,720 steps – he works for a building company so, again, it’s not a big surprise that he walks a lot. My wife is in 3rd place, with 14,440 steps – pretty impressive! In 4th place is my daughter with an average of 13,281 steps per day. In 5th position is my wife’s youngest brother, with 10,310 steps – just over the 10,000 steps per day that Fitbit recommend. I am trailing the field with a miserable 3,789 steps per day, which is actually better than I had imagined it to be. Today I have done 2,091 steps, and I’m feeling every single one of them!
Aside from feeling fatigued and unmotivated, I’m feeling shaky, my muscles are aching, and my voice is giving up on me. My elder brother called me on FaceTime today from Nova Scotia to say that he wasn’t able to get an answer when he FaceTimed our mother today. I had to explain that he was wasting his time, because her voice was too weak for her to hold a conversation at the moment – I had to repeat myself at least 5 times before he could understand what I was saying!