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Living with PN, do you find yourself retreating from life?
Neuropathy | Last Active: Mar 5 10:44am | Replies (144)Comment receiving replies
If you could see me, Quietriver (@quietriver), you'd see that I'm giving your message two thumbs up––two thumbs up to ALL you say! It is vital that we keep our brains popping on all cylinders. I've too many friends––peers, who retired on or about the same time I did––who've simply settled-in to retirement, seemingly content to have retired not only from their days jobs but also from life itself. (And the friends I'm thinking of are friends who've no chronic illnesses. More's the pity.)
Already I'm hearing others on Connect moaning, "Oh, no! @ray666 is about to quote Twyla Tharp again! … Well, yes, I am. 🙂 One of my favorite Twyla Tharp quotes is "Make each day one in which you emerge, unlock, excite and discover!" (The exclamation point was my contribution.) Tharp is encouraging us, just as you are encouraging us, to " … Start playing games going out and socializing." (I myself need to do a better job of this.)
My trick for exercising my brain is to memorize poetry: one poem every week. As a retired actor who used to pride himself on how quickly I could learn lines, and now that I no longer have to memorize a playwright's lines, it's a pleasure to commit a poem to memory: to see that I've not "lost the ol' skill."
So, you see, quietriver, I totally agree with all that you say! And you say it so well!
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
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@ray666 Hi Ray something to think about. I do it all the time The biggest thing working for balance is the foot. I started b standing by the sink and lifting my heels up and stand on my toes. after I became used to it I started walking on my toes heels in the air. your toes are the key as far as the foot goes and as I walk I take a 32 " step coming down onthe heel and rolling off the toes. that give your step balance as you push off. works quite well also.even my neuorophy is starting to feel better from it. Hope you have happy valentines day I did. quiet river
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@ray666 quiet river Keep up the good work and that quote from Twyla Tharp is right on. I enjoy plaryng many games reading a lot I was averaging a book a day but now back to building and loving every minuet of it.Might I suggest maybe a sml stroller for your pouch. The handle would even give you some balance. A feed years ago in Arizona a fella walked by using a stroller and could barely move. I went out and talked with him and he said he had been sick and it was either force himself to walk or die. This gentleman had a lot of will power. Three months later he was walking without any assistance. and a year later was running. He said it was a real chalenge to begain with but with encoragement he kept going. He was in his late seventies then.