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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@ellens

Does the Epsom salt water's temperature make a difference; is cold or hot better?

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@ellens, Warm water dissolves the epsom salts faster and I find it more soothing.

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@mayofeb2020

@becsbuddy. Do you live in Colorado? My friend sent her granddaughter to college in Denver Friday and it seems like it's going to snow. We in CA had a few days of 100+ degrees. There are also fires too, my daughter said there were ashes on her patio even though the fire was not closr. Weather reports indicate there will be strong Sant Ana winds tonight through tomorrow. This is a treacherous offshore wind that often fans devastating fires. I walked this morning early around 7:30, maybe later this evening, depending on the weather.

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@mayofeb2020 Yes, I live in Colorado. Looks like we missed the snow, but it’s going to rain all day. And it’s only 36 degrees! Yesterday was 90! I’m just hoping the rain helps with the fire north of us. The air has been terrible!

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@fiesty76

@ellens, Warm water dissolves the epsom salts faster and I find it more soothing.

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Thanks. Good to know.

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@mayofeb2020

@becsbuddy. Do you live in Colorado? My friend sent her granddaughter to college in Denver Friday and it seems like it's going to snow. We in CA had a few days of 100+ degrees. There are also fires too, my daughter said there were ashes on her patio even though the fire was not closr. Weather reports indicate there will be strong Sant Ana winds tonight through tomorrow. This is a treacherous offshore wind that often fans devastating fires. I walked this morning early around 7:30, maybe later this evening, depending on the weather.

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@mayofeb2020 I can look out my window and see the smoke from the bobcat fire 🔥

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check out the "red sun" tonight

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@deborahfrick123

@ellens
Very interesting story. I know you can mix several tablespoons into an 8 oz glass of water to help pass stool, but good to know you can find eggs in the stool so you can treat for pinworms.

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I learned how to do flotation when I was working on a horse farm in MT. I used sugar or salt in a test tube of water to saturate it very highly and then I'd have a manure sample in the tube and stuck a clean slide on top and the parasite eggs would float up and cling to the slide (this is all I remember from many years ago). I'd put the slide under the microscope and count parasite eggs. I imagine that sort of thing is what they do for human parasites. My poor mother had to boil our underwear and maybe sheets too for a couple of weeks. My brother was little enough to be using a potty chair on the floor and that's how our mother spotted the pinworms. She had a degree in medical technology and our father was a pathologist so from their education in parasitology they knew what to do. They came in at night when I was asleep with a flashlight trained on my butt and I woke up to hear them whispering "there's one" and "there's one"--they knew the worms came out at night to lay eggs. So then it was off to Mayo because we could stay with grandparents for the procedure.

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@ellens

I learned how to do flotation when I was working on a horse farm in MT. I used sugar or salt in a test tube of water to saturate it very highly and then I'd have a manure sample in the tube and stuck a clean slide on top and the parasite eggs would float up and cling to the slide (this is all I remember from many years ago). I'd put the slide under the microscope and count parasite eggs. I imagine that sort of thing is what they do for human parasites. My poor mother had to boil our underwear and maybe sheets too for a couple of weeks. My brother was little enough to be using a potty chair on the floor and that's how our mother spotted the pinworms. She had a degree in medical technology and our father was a pathologist so from their education in parasitology they knew what to do. They came in at night when I was asleep with a flashlight trained on my butt and I woke up to hear them whispering "there's one" and "there's one"--they knew the worms came out at night to lay eggs. So then it was off to Mayo because we could stay with grandparents for the procedure.

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@deborahfrick123 zShe didn't want to try the garlic enema ??

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@ellens

I learned how to do flotation when I was working on a horse farm in MT. I used sugar or salt in a test tube of water to saturate it very highly and then I'd have a manure sample in the tube and stuck a clean slide on top and the parasite eggs would float up and cling to the slide (this is all I remember from many years ago). I'd put the slide under the microscope and count parasite eggs. I imagine that sort of thing is what they do for human parasites. My poor mother had to boil our underwear and maybe sheets too for a couple of weeks. My brother was little enough to be using a potty chair on the floor and that's how our mother spotted the pinworms. She had a degree in medical technology and our father was a pathologist so from their education in parasitology they knew what to do. They came in at night when I was asleep with a flashlight trained on my butt and I woke up to hear them whispering "there's one" and "there's one"--they knew the worms came out at night to lay eggs. So then it was off to Mayo because we could stay with grandparents for the procedure.

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@deborahfrick123. For once, i am speechless! How often did you and your brother go through this?

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I'm in! My name is Cindy, I have a dog named MOW (Moment Of Weakness) and he loves to walk. We normally head out no matter what the weather. I have stage lV lung cancer and my motto is do it while ya can! 🙂 How does it work?

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@lioness

@deborahfrick123 zShe didn't want to try the garlic enema ??

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@lioness
How are you making it tthrough the CA heat wave? Did your lights stay on? I wonder if a garlic enema burns???

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