ABOUT THE SAME
HI JOURNAL,
I'VE COME TO TALK WITH YOU AGAIN.
IT IS THREE YEAR SINCE I UNDERWENT DBS.
I WAS AT THE CLINIC EARLIER THIS WEEK,
FOR TESTS AND CHECKS ETC.
ALL THE PHYSICAL TESTS,
WERE DONE TWICE, AND VIDEOD.
UNMEDICATED AND WITH MY DBS,
STIMULATOR SWITCHED EITHER ON OR OFF,
DEPENDING ON ON THE TASK TO BE PERFORMED.
AT TIMES I WAS RUNING ON EMPTY, AS IT WERE.
AS LUNCH TIME APPROACHED,
SO DID THE END OF THE COGNATIVE T ESTING,
WITH THAT BEING THE END OF,
THE ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.
IN SUMERISING,
THE TESTING ETC INDICATED THAT,
I AM ABOUT THE SAME AS LAST YEAR.
SO I FEEL I'M DOING OK, EVEN BETTER,
I CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT.
I DO HAVE ISSUES WITH MY SPEECH,
IT IS BECOMING MONOTONE AND LOW IN VOLUME.
I DO HAVE ISSUES WITH MY HANDWRITNG.
FOR MY SPEECH,
THE SILVERMAN SPEECH THERAPY PROGRAM,
WILL NEED TO BE REVISITED.
FOR MY HANDWRITING,
I PRACTISE THIS ON A DAILY BASIS,
ALAS, WITH LITTLE IMPROVEMENT.
I AM AT A LOSS,
AS TO HOW TO ARREST THIS DETERIOATION.
ANYWAY, ON A POSITIVE NOTE,
I CAN SAY, 'YOU WIN SOME,
YOU LOOSE SOME'.
SUCH IS LIFE.
YEP, AND SUCH IS LIFE WITH,
THIS BLOODY CONDITION WE CALL PARKINSON'S.
YET WE DO NOT GIVE IN,
I AM FLEXIBLE I CAN ADAPT.
WE JUST GO TO HELL AND REGROUP,
THEN FIGURE OUT NEW WAYS TO DO THINGS.
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