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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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I’d forgotten about pop guns! I believe I might have had one or did I often use the neighbors’ - they had 5 kids, only one was a girl.
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1 ReactionWell, guess my childhood was a bit different. I mostly remember living in government housing in Germany. We lived in apartments that were very close together. Don’t remember any cowboys and Indians or crocodiles in the jungle. We were really hooked on our roller skates and would zoom up and down the side walk. And then the bakery truck would pull up and we’d all scatter home to get some money for fresh, hot brotchen!
Think I’ll try for a second walk today, if it doesn’t rain. 🤗
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1 ReactionHi, @lilypaws, Actually, Sue wrote about discovering the climbing tree with her two grands and I wrote about playing Tarzan and Jane in the treehouse behind my home. I'm smiling because I'm pretty sure that if there'd been another little friend playing with us during that tree climbing era, I would have probably been the chimpanzee, too! Smiles. Like you, though the important thing was being part of the play time group, yes?
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1 Reaction@wisco, Were those pop guns the ones that had the little red strips of paper with a tiny black dot in the center???? If so a little neighbor boy had one of those and though I begged to try it, the little stinker never let me even come close! Fun years and fond memories! Giggling, because our "walking maestro" may need to nudge us back on track but still the digression has been fun!
And yes, to our super instigator of this walker/cizer group, @becsbuddy, I Did walk today but it was humid and I needed to set up a little gathering of four at the front table which included washing the entire shaded concrete yard of earlier bird visitors...any excuse in a pinch, yes?
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2 ReactionsFiesty76
In response to fun years and fond memories. Those pop guns were very dangerous, be glad the little sinker did not let you try it.
In my childhood neighborhood there were several bad kids, very unruly. With irresponsible parents. 2 of the bad boys would go up to some of the kids, and pop those awful guns in other kids ears. Enough times and those kids went hard of hearing. I’m still friends of one of the kids, and now are 99% deaf. As to the boys and their irresponsible folks, I’m sure the dumb parents are no longer living, and the 2 boys I’m sure are a failure in life, and their best report cards were all D,s.
Another gal who’s father always best her up, took out her frustration with other kids and had one of those guns.
My fun memories were riding my 2 wheeler bike, and playing board games, and playing golf and tennis.
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2 ReactionsThe red paper strips were for cap guns!
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2 Reactions@funcountess & @wisco50, Funcountess, thank you for the enlightening information on the dangerous effects of the pop guns. I remember his did make a very loud noise and he thought it very funny to point it in the direction of someone who wasn't looking. Are pop and cap guns the same? I already have pronounced hearing loss from turning the music up too high as a teenager so am doubly thankful that I never had a chance to use that gun. My friends and I had great fun racing around the neighborhood on our bikes as well. Interesting looking back that my family played board games but I can't recall playing any with friends growing up. Did you play board games with your friends?
Never played golf but played tennis in high school and used to "practice" by hitting the balls against the high outside walls of our high school gym during the summers. Now there are golf and tennis "camps" for youngsters. Our 15 yr old got into a young "caddy" program the last summer in Evanston, IL and while I offered to "gift" tennis lessons, his preference is golf. Unlike so many sports it can become a lifetime sport although I've known friends who complained about being "golf widows". Have you continued to golf throughout the years?
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1 Reaction@becsbuddy, Interesting to learn about growing up in different areas and how locales affected our childhood past times. Roller skates were prized in my childhood too and we spent many hours skating sidewalks in our neighborhood. Sounds yummie to have a bakery truck come by. No wonder you scattered for money to buy from it! Two walks in one day? I'm in awe!
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2 Reactions@becsbuddy The bakery truck brought back memories for me too. Our neighodrove a bakery truck that delivered to businesses. At the end of the day he would drive home with leftovers from the day’s deliveries. His children, along with the neighborhood children, would raid the truck and buy leftover snack cakes. Happy times!
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3 ReactionsWe lived on a farm and used to take a hammer and pound them on the cement to get them to spark and make the noise. It didn’t take much to entertain us.
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