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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
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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@judyhodgern, I think learning to better pace myself has been one of the harder challenges for me as I age. So many times, I've forgotten that health and age make it harder for me to keep doing what I used to do with ease and have had to pay the price later. While there is a lot of truth in the saying: "Mind over Matter", I'm working to remember that while my mind might think 40's, my muscles and breathing often remind me that 77 is my new reality! Glad you took some needed sit down breaks and returned home safely.
@fracturedd, Thanks for tip of adding a bit of peppermint oil to the tissue before masking. I often chew some peppermint gum when masked but I like your tip better!
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1 Reaction@wisco50 So Cal we are on a heat wave same today so staying in next week all high 90,s
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1 Reaction@fiesty76 Send them over I,LL be waiting This is our summer Sept - Nov now
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1 Reaction@lioness. How are you handling the heat? I managed to get a walk in yesterday morning, then stayed in to watch the FedEx Cup. I think i may start now and walk a little. As you probably know, it's going to be 106 today. Keep cool.
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1 Reaction@mayofeb2020 Pretty well yesterday but already I have the a,c on will cool down till noon or so then intermittently Drink lots of cool water going to stay in and chair exercise today 😊 Next week little cooler high 90,s so you take care also
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1 Reaction@fiesty76 I miss d the post of peppermint oil ,what was it ,?
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1 ReactionHi Judy - I have 3 spacers to use with my handheld inhaler. One resides in the bathroom drawer, is quite bulky & I called an OptiChamber by Respironics, another the Vortex. I really like them, but they aren't very portable. In my "go bag" with my inhaler & EpiPen, that goes everywhere with me is a homemade version I have had for years - a 6" piece of corrugated oxygen tubing from a respiratory therapist at the hospital, with a nebulizer mouthpeice on one end. I jam the inhaler into the other end to use it. Works quite well, actually. I think there are also devices called disposable spacers or microspacers that would serve this function.
Don't feel bad about stopping to rest on your walk! The whole point of this group is to get us all up and moving at our own pace. Two miles in 95F & humid weather is quite an accomplishment. Several of my walking routes have benches on them - either in parks, next to Little Libraries, or set out by neighbors along the lakefront or walking path. Yesterday I stopped at one to stretch, and the homeowner came out with a cold bottle of water for me and visited for a few minutes - how nice!
Keep walking!
Sue
Thank you!!!
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1 ReactionThanks Sue, I better get a spacer because I think I could probably get a better dose of my inhaler if I use a spacer I’ll see if I can find one like the ones you’re talking about thank you so much I very much appreciate it!