Ywsterday I started having tremors. (Okay, the sadistic may stop cheering now.) These ranged from mild shaking like if you were cold, to severe ones that my hands shook so badly that I could not hold anything hot to drink because the cup would slosh so violently I'd spill it all over myself. Which I did, once, fortunately it spilled on my gown and was hot, not scalding.
Trying to do programming under those conditions would probably be near impossible.
I told an aide about my problem, who either spoke to a doctor, or to a nurse who spoke to the doctor, and within a few minutes - blinding fast for the usual speed they do things around here - someone came in with a prescription, twice daily, which she said they give it to patients with Parkinsons Disease. I had looked up tremor on Wikipedia and it did identify that as one of its causes.
I took the pill and waited to see what happened, figuring it might be a couple days for it to work. Oh no! Within about 4 hours, the severity declined and the frequency went from "near-continuous" or every couple of seconds, to maybe once a minute, in sort of "bell curve" drop, where it gradually declines to nothing. They may have given me a second pill, and if nothing changed they gave me two more today.
A female practitioner, was probably a doctor but might have been a nurse, asked me how I was and what had been done. She asked if I'd had them before, and I remembered, it was once, months ago. I think it was back in room 240, lasted 1/2 a day, and was not as sever, just annoying. Don't remember if it just stopped or I also took something then.
She said she'd check on it, to find out what they are giving me. I never did hear from her, so I don't know what they gave me. Could be placebo but I doubt it. In any event, it works great. I've not noticed any reduction in my intellectual capacity, which I've heard some drugs to stop brain operational failures do.
Att thys poynt I psell perfeck a bunnch of werds to shew my great brane capeabillitty. Sorri four misinng thee 1- annd 2-letur werds, butt I can't do evrytheng worng.
I have been tremor free all day, and hopefully this will continue.