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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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@deborahfrick123 I will especially now in this weather Our old postal worker had a knee replacement .How are you feeling ?
@lioness Today, I am feeling not so good. A whole host of problems lately. My knees hurt and crack every time I bend them. My fingers are so stiff they scream in pain. My eyes feel like someone drained out my eye fluid. My hip aches and my feet today are okay, for a change.
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1 Reaction@lioness. Stay cool during the heat surge in CA this week! I won't be back online until Friday night. My friend in MO bought one of those cooling hats that were on TV and she said it really works.
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1 ReactionI'm sorry you're feeling so crummy. One weird thing that has happened to me occurred at the start of the pandemic when I was horribly nervous. My left pointing finger swelled up so I can't bend it. I won't be surprised if it goes down once people are getting vaccinated. Just take it easy and stay cool even if you have to park yourself in front of a fan all day.
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2 ReactionsI soak my hands in Epsom salt water, really helps with swelling and stiffness.
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2 Reactions@deborahfrick123 Sounds good I,ll have to look into not it Haven't seen it will Google it
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1 ReactionDoes the Epsom salt water's temperature make a difference; is cold or hot better?
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It's a bag of "Epsom Salt " you measure out 1 cup and put it into a pan of very warm water. Soak your hands. I put the pan on a tv tray and watch tv while my hands or feet soak. Epsom salt has magnesium in it and it enters your body by way if your skin. Your skin is the biggest organ of the body and like osmosis it is absorbed. Very helpful, I do it weekly.
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1 ReactionThis might gross you out, but when we were little kids my brother and I picked up pinworms. Off to Mayo where they had us drink Epsom Salt--the magnesium really caused a clean-out poop--and then they were able to analyze the poop for eggs, which they found. Then he and I had to chew wintergreen-flavored pills for a couple of weeks at least. It was a long time before I was willing to eat that flavor again.
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1 Reaction@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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