A Quick Update

Attractive wasn’t it? That is what I started with once the vapour barrier was removed way back when I began the current project. I have made considerable progress – in fact the new plastic sheeting is going up.

What is probably good news is that the remnants of Nicole came through yesterday and I discovered that there was some touching up required on that big leak I had.

So, I will reverse course in one section today and climb back up into the rafters, seal the sh*t out of it, and then finish with the vapour barrier tomorrow.

I’m on a new med for my tremors and one of the side effects is that I can only work for a short period each day before parasthesia takes over my hands and chest. I expect this will go away eventually as my body gets used to the drug – in the meantime it does slow things down.

Still, I expect to have everything ready before the first whistle next Sunday. The cats plan to hold me to that promise. 🙂

2 Comments

  1. I’m looking forward to your reports and progress with the tremor medication. My essential tremor is still, thankfully, rather mild, but of course the darn things get worse with age. I found out that antidepressants were making it worse and I had to quit those. Luckily life changes are making _those_ drugs not necessary now. Paresthesia, though, is not a good time. I used to work with people who had chemo-related neuropathy and there was _some_ anecdotal stuff that showed some promise and that was some simple circulatory-enhancing massage—which can be as simple as buffing nails daily to rubbing the hands together in a systematic way.

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    1. I’ve started topamax and it’s the first one to make a difference with the tremor. It really works for me. I started very small (I mean very) small dose because I over-react to everything, then have increased slowly as it loses some effectiveness and side effects disappear. I should note that the side effects I get are always the ones that are experienced by less than 10% of people taking whatever the med is. 🙂
      The parasthesia disappears after a few hours and is triggered (in me anyway) by physical effort like this project. Sometimes it pops up a couple of hours after I take the pill but only lasts an hour or so if I’m just sitting there. It’s annoying.

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