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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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@lioness, Hmmm, comes as no surprise to us that our friend, Linda, was "chosen" to help organize and distribute the boxes coming in the mail! You remind me of my friend, who I so often teased that she was like the little ever ready battery, that never stops while some of the rest of us have trouble starting. Smiles So glad you are doing all you can to protect and keep yourself as safe as possible.
Yes, our Tx gov. has followed the FL gov in finally wearing a mask at briefings and shutting down bars. Now the fed. gov't is withdrawing funds for Covid testing and both states are among those losing funding. Despite the rampant, daily record rise in case numbers, our states "have this virus under control"...Goodness, I've even read and heard that it will soon disappear "on its own". There are clods out there and all over the place who really seem to believe this is true!!! Give us a bloody break already.
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2 Reactions@imallears, Mary, I put things out in plain sight as a reminder for me to use them too. Sometimes the counters and "parking areas" stack up! vbg
TX has a "No Container Law" which prohibits leaving an establishment serving alcohol with a "to go" container. A few years ago at a celebratory luncheon, two of us poured our drinks into a "to go cup", pd our bills and were chased by the waiter asking us to stop as we were walking out. "I can lose my job and the restaurant lose its license if you carry those drinks out!" Of course, we didn't know the law but it was embarrassing.
Regret that you and family have friends now diagnosed with the virus. I fear that will become more and more common for us all as this killer continues to spread.
Your remark brought a smile: "I would sincerely like to unsubscribe to my 90 day free trial of 2020." Is membership open for others of us to join you????
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3 Reactions@sueinmn, Excellent information and explanation on the big box plants vs the local wholesale growers and nurseries. I do sometimes buy seasonal "annual fillers" for extra show from the big box sellers but spending a bit more for the locally grown and sold "keepers" pays dividends to me in the longer term. Smiles
@rosemary, Thanks for posting this informative guide, Rosemary. Really liked the "above the neck" idea because if there is no fever, it will be easy to remember. Alas, the recommended strength training is where I can fall by the wayside all too often. While digging in the yard would qualify, just bending over to plant seeds might be a stretch, right? Smiles. Thanks again for the link!
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5 Reactions@fiesty76
Hi,
No walking today, Sunday, first time not out on at least 2weeks. Got up too late so anytime after 7 is just too warm. Slight haze here again . We have had no rain so the afternoons don’t cool off and the nights stay in the low 80s. I miss the late afternoon thunderstorms.
Last night I walked around my house 10 times. Will do that again today a few times....I get antsy sitting too long. Staying away from the gym for another week.
FL has an open container law...driving or walking. You can be arrested for public intoxication or just carrying a drink in public.
Very quiet in the area and have not seen the usual walkers except for those with dogs.
FL Mary
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3 Reactions@funcountess Nature is funny - you can't rush it. At the store, your shrubs may have looked nice and healthy from the top, but if the roots were "pruned" to fit the pot or damaged by the way they were handle between field and pot, the have to establish first to get a healthy plant. In that case, too much fertilizer, trying to force top growth over root production, can actually stress the plant and make it less healthy. At most, shrubs should be fertilized twice per year with a general purpose fertilizer. I generally use a time-released one, applied according to directions, around the root zone of the plant. By the way, one of the selling points for Indian Hawthorn is that it is slow-growing, so maybe your neighbors actually plant 2, 3 or 5 gallon shrubs?
Sue
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2 ReactionsHello Sue,
Thanks for all the info.
At Home Depot the kid in the nursery dept. said Indian Hawthorne was a fast grower. A lot they know I guess.
My regular Gardner. is the one who tells me fertilize often. I will cut way back, and tell him too much fertilizer on the bushes is not good.
His answer to everything is more water and more fertilizer.
His helpers do not understand English,so I must stay outside and watch them, as they are known to pull flowers and leave weeds.
It’s a common problem with the gardners in my area.
Yesterday, Saturday had a burst of energy. I cut roses for 2 hours, trimmed some tree branches, vacuumed half the house, and washed floors in 3 rooms.
Today, it’s laundry, and more rose trimming.
My niece is staying with me, and helping to get stuff ready to take to charity. Us Americans have so much stuff,it’s time to give to charities, so they can get things to those less fortunate.
I’m a big believer in donating, to help others.
Hope your thumb is getting better.
Thanks again for all your good advice.
Funcountess
@imallears Normally by this time of day I have more than an hour into my allotted outdoor activity for the day. Not today. Yesterday my husband arrived back home at 1:30AM. We both got about 5 hrs sleep, then set out to get errands done, rental car returned, etc. Lots of walking in the stores, then home to get groceries put away. I decided that Sundays would be a day off; this week we were rewarded by a small deer herd coming through the backyard, then working their way around to front yard. They perused the areas where I have been pruning and chopping, helping clean up what is still there.
Tomorrow I will start all over again, walking, weeding, whatever for those two hrs each morning. i lve the early hours.
Ginger
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2 Reactions@gingerw
I'm an early bird too and I agree that Sunday sounds like a good day off for outdoor walking although ,by tonight, I will be antsy and jog around the house again. Doing weights and stretches today throughout and I also have a step up which is great when I start to binge something on TV
As long as we are moving and I would love to have seen the deer....couldn't be a more beautiful animal.....
FL Mary
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2 Reactions@imallears My husband took a couple of pictures. His co-workers at the job he goes to every other month don't believe him; they are in the city. I told him to go take a picture of the deer poop left behind! We also have elk in the neighborhood, but haven't seen any for a while.
Ginger
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