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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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Sparrows were in abundance on our farm, however my Dad really never allowed any type of gun to get into our hands. He must have known that I could be dangerous! LOL
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1 Reaction@migizii I live in Northern Minnesota. Are either of you visiting our beautiful area or live up here too?
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1 ReactionI live in Duluth. I grew up mostly in Mankato and went to the Rockies for a few decades and wanted to come back and live on wonderful Lake Superior. I remember driving trips up the North Shore when I was a kid. I love watching the shipping action, too. I've been here for two years.
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1 ReactionWise Dad. We had dangerous boys in the neighborhood with their BB guns and arrows. We were told to stay far away from them.
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1 ReactionI live in Rochester and have been to the North shore and once even took my two children into the Boundary waters. I had no business doing that, we jumped into a canoe and the guy handed me a water map, of all things!! It meant nothing to me. We finally found some private land owner who let us portage into the next lake. We barely made it back to our original landing spot before dark. The loons made my heart swell! My kids still give me a hard time about my silly bravery at that time to this day.
I haven’t been to the Duluth area for sometime, hopefully once this all settles down, I can return.
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1 ReactionMy daughter is a HS science teacher. Ecology for freshmen and then Chem/Physics. Each summer she and another teacher take a group of students to Boundary Waters. They do water chemistry stuff, ecology learning and have fun. Had to cancel this summer’s but since she had the reservation, she used it with some cousins from S.D. Sounds like they had a good time. She says I’d like it. I love Nature. But don’t think I’m up to canoe sitting, portages, etc. Plus bears. I’m never up for bears! 😳 Bear phobia is my middle name!
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1 Reaction@jude07 Hey, another farm girl. It was just BB gun that didn't even shoot straight. But I do remember paper dolls. I was the baby of our family and we were 6 years apart, which met my oldest sister was 12 years older that me. I was pretty lonesome and shy, but ended with a guy that wasn't shy at all. But he was killed in a car accident 11 days after we were married and a good friend went to heaven with him. That was way back in 1969. I have been married since for 49 years. I was only 18, was really hard, I loved him a lot, but he's and my good friend are in my heart as all the rest.
My daughter, who is 41, talks about how she could ride her bike all over. That was when we lived in the Seattle area on a plateau. I really miss Seattle. I know, I know they say it rains a lot, but sometimes it's just overcast and sprinkling. We did have our rain storms, but winter was much milder there. You have to remember we also had evergreen trees that when we first moved there we felt closed in and did find a property that was open in the back. It seldom rained in the summer, so June, July, August and September were really nice. June would stay cooler and I thought the first year that spring would not come, but it was that way here this spring and we get just as much rain as they do, except for the summer. It was a gorgeous place to live, with Mt. Rainier, the Cascades, and of course the water.
I got off of what I wanted to say, my daughter felt safe back then.
I'm glad I'm not a farm wife and when I grew up we moved 10 miles from our town. Remember the mud, we lived on a high hill and there were times the bus couldn't get to our house and my dad had to come and get me on his little tractor at a neighbors house. Oh, what memories.
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1 ReactionAm I on the RA site??? What do these posts have to don with RA??
@ellens I would never think of shooting any birds now. Something about living on a farm that a bored kid did. The stupid BB gun never shot straight anyway. But I could not shoot a pheasant, many big town guys would come and ask if they could shoot pheasants on your land. Oh yes, don't forget about the deer. Those gorgeous creatures should be left alone, but I guess there are too many of them.
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1 ReactionHi @susandenise I’m so sorry that you came to the wrong page! This is just a group who love to talk about everything while they are walking. The link below will take you to the RA discussion.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/rheumatoid-arthritis-ra-introduce-yourself-and-meet-others/
Come back and walk with us sometime!
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