6000

1300 days since I started this journal. Have almost made an entry each day. A bit over three and one-half years (3.56). Seems like only a short time. Have only been posting to this blog since March of this year. Previous three years are just in text documents.

7300 days equals 20 years. I'll be about 82 when the countdown is complete. That will be a lot of blogspace by then.

Didn't make another tea last night. Symptoms seemed fairly quiet so need to overdose on tea. Read until it got fairly late. Reading a SciFi short novel about a planet set up and run by women--no men around. I may make it through the whole thing since it is short. It's an interesting premise, but the writing is deadly dull. Even though each chapter is supposedly written (as a journal entry) by a different person, the characterization is zero so it all reads the same.

Also picked up SlipPage by Harlan Ellison. The forward chronicles his several heart attacks and surgeries. It highlights his admonition--Pay Attention. He tried to push through the episodes as if they were distractions and not life-threatening events. And, it all started with an earthquake (shaking) that nearly leveled his home.

Rains have come! Been storming on and off all morning. I've been moving slowly today. Rains not making it inviting or exciting to get out and about. Wet holiday shoppers paying their holidaze dues.

Dreams got lost in the early hours shuffle. There were dreams--but no memory of what they were about. Raindrops drummed the dreams away. Feeling dreamy now. May climb back in bed and read some before venturing out into the weather. Wonder how long it's going to rain?
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Finally did make a pot of tea and it moderated the shaking. Drank some Sleepytime from Celestial Seasonings. It has chamomile along with other herbs. It did not moderate the symptoms as well as straight chamomile. After dinner, I went with L to a pub where I had a beer (which seemed to stimulate the symptoms), a piece of apple tort, and a cup of chamomile (Stash brand). Again, it seems to be moderating the symptoms.

It's wonderful to experience a cessation of the tremors. They came out of nowhere, just an occasional shaking a few months ago. They peaked after I took the medication for those few days and stopped the dosage. It was as if the medication moderated the symptoms, but then enhanced them when it was stopped. Now the herbal tea seems to be moderating the symptoms. Go with the flow! And look into other possible herbal remedies. I'm thinking of valerian root as a possibility. Need to do some research.