Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group

Posted by Becky, Volunteer Mentor @becsbuddy, Feb 19, 2020

Many of you living with cancer or an autoimmune disease, like me, deal with daily fatigue. You know that exercise is so important to your health, but it’s so hard. There’s always an excuse: it’s too cold or hot, it’s going to rain or it’s raining, or it’s snowy and icy, or I just don’t want to. I, too, have all these excuses, but I have a new rescue dog who wants to go out and who doesn’t care about my excuses! And I’ve got traction devices for my boots.Now I just need a walking group who will keep me accountable. People who say, ‘let’s go for a walk.'

And I thought: What about my virtual friends on MayoClinicConnect?

Mayo Clinic has an easy 12-week walking program to get us started! Here’s the link:
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/get-walking-with-this-12-week-walking-schedule/

So let’s form a virtual walking group. We can agree to walk every day and encourage each other through Connect. We can walk outdoors, in a mall, or in the red center, or in the hallways of our apartment building.

Who’s in? Who’s going to join me?

Come on, Let’s Go Walking!

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Ginger, Volunteer Mentor | @gingerw | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @pollyanne "@becksbuddy & @lioness & @contentandwell. Happy Easter to you and to everyone on this walking site...." + (show)

@pollyanne ouch! Does using any heating ointment help with aches in that area where you feel pain? It must be difficult to suddenly not be able to move as freely as you were doing just earlier this week.

We are having beautiful weather here today, blue skies and no clouds. The sunrise this morning was full of reds, oranges and peaches; we usually have fog and overcast! The deer in the back field were highlighted against the sun which was really a beautiful thing to see. People are out walking as families now. Since so many activities were cancelled, residents have hung giant eggs in trees and on fences plus putting teddy bears in windows so that youngsters can watch for them. We live on a dead end beyond the last intersection so no one comes this far down. Fun to hear the squeals of the kids. Our neighbor and I created a Whimsy corner that is all decorated. Easter bonnets, eggs, and baby bunnies grouped around a tree stump with two prongs that look like bunny ears. I even put a face mask on the bunny! It's a good day for a walk.
Ginger

fiesty76 | @fiesty76 | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @lioness "@fiesty76 I,ll give you some of mine then lol" + (show)

Great, Lioness! Think either Fed Ex or USPS still deliver...5-10-15 pounds...whatever you can spare...and could you enclose instructions so they don't land around my waist.... Hugs!

jude07 | @jude07 | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @pollyanne "@becksbuddy & @lioness & @contentandwell. Happy Easter to you and to everyone on this walking site...." + (show)

Hoping your leg heals with rest and time. Yes, there is fear for your daughter and her patient, I will pray for them.

fiesty76 | @fiesty76 | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @lioness "@fiesty76 Happy Easter a gloomy one . Isn't that a eery feeling not to hear the..." + (show)

@lioness, Thank you and Happy Easter to you and all as well. We had a huge drop in temps last night but I got geared up for an "extra bonus" walk today and then the blasted wind knocked out that idea. Read a spoof that someone wrote that they'd given each room of their house a new name: gym, post office, park...etc Maybe I'll see how that works today? smiles

pollyanne | @pollyanne | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @jude07 "Hoping your leg heals with rest and time. Yes, there is fear for your daughter and..." + (show)

Jude07 Thank you for your good wishes for Emma. It isn't a patient though. She is overseeing all the remodelling at the hotel where she is the GM and it was the electrician she was talking to face to face. Thank you for your prayers for both of them. It's surprising that construction work is still allowed but it is still going on around us here as well.

pollyanne | @pollyanne | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @gingerw "@pollyanne ouch! Does using any heating ointment help with aches in that area where you feel..." + (show)

@gingerw Thanks. I have used Voltaren but I think I will give Tiger Balm a try. I think this will go away with rest for a day or two. I've had this before but not as extreme. I'd like to know what I did to cause it. It came on gradually later in the day.

pollyanne | @pollyanne | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @fiesty76 "@lioness, Thank you and Happy Easter to you and all as well. We had a huge..." + (show)

@fiesty76. I was sent a floor plan of a friend's house showing where the wine was in each room! Funny!

fiesty76 | @fiesty76 | Apr 12, 2020

@pollyanne I like that idea!! Might deposit a few bottles during my walk through the hourse today!

lioness | @lioness | Apr 12, 2020

In reply to @becsbuddy "@lioness Happy Easter! I think our calendar turned back to January! It’s cold and we have..." + (show)

@becsbuddy NO walking here either it is cold out and gloomy I did my chair exercise but made chocolate cookies to take to some friends. Happy Easter to you . Listened to Dr Stanley good program. Here we got some good news starting tomorrow the company is having a meal a day delivered to us . There are 300 people here mostly elderly so this is great . A food box coming Tues. that is once a month .