Last week when the speech therapist came, she had me doing exercises for confident speaking. Basically it was like self hypnosis, fixing times in your brain when you were very confident and learning to recapture them by use of a physical trigger, in this case pressing my thumbnail of my right hand into my index finger. Sounds daft, but it does work.
I am still lucky, I am a confident person, but because of the Parkinson's, sometimes stutter now and find it hard to stop the muscles in my throat contracting.
One of the exercises involved imagining when I might be called on to use this skill. I did and now I'm going to have to call on it for real.
I'm the one in our family called upon to read the lesson at weddings and eulogies at funerals. Mum told me that my cousin wanted me to read at Aunt Ros's funeral, but was too afraid to ask me. People sometimes treat me with kid gloves. It is weird though what makes my tremor worse, it makes other people more uncomfortable than it has ever done me. I'm still me, and quite able to do everthing I did before.
End of long story. I told my cousin I would be more than happy to read at the funeral if she'd like me to do it, so I am, and I will do it well.
I am still lucky, I am a confident person, but because of the Parkinson's, sometimes stutter now and find it hard to stop the muscles in my throat contracting.
One of the exercises involved imagining when I might be called on to use this skill. I did and now I'm going to have to call on it for real.
I'm the one in our family called upon to read the lesson at weddings and eulogies at funerals. Mum told me that my cousin wanted me to read at Aunt Ros's funeral, but was too afraid to ask me. People sometimes treat me with kid gloves. It is weird though what makes my tremor worse, it makes other people more uncomfortable than it has ever done me. I'm still me, and quite able to do everthing I did before.
End of long story. I told my cousin I would be more than happy to read at the funeral if she'd like me to do it, so I am, and I will do it well.
