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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 will tell you one definite reasons I hated the introduction of computers into my nursing job. Let me first say that I do see some positives - charts can be easily shared between providers, specific things can be looked for using searches instead of poring through hundreds of papers (especially with older patients with complicated histories), medical imaging can be sent via computers instead of hand carrying films, etc. BUT, my last 22 years as an RN, I was working in PACU, aka surgical recovery in layman’s terms. I was able to chart with pen and paper using one hand while physically comforting my patient through touch with my other hand. I’m sure you can imagine that sometimes human touch is very comforting when you’re hurting, frightened, etc. Bring in computer and suddenly you need two hands. Plus the rolling computer desk is clumsy enough you can’t even nestle up against the bed railing even if you could chart with one hand/finger. I guess I was an old fashioned nurse in a new fang,ed setting. 😢 I adapted but I never liked it! Retirement was a relief for many reasons!
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2 Reactions@ellens
How far is the store?
I should walk but I have lazyitis
Jake
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1 ReactionAbout 6 1/2 blocks downhill. Then uphill. The first 4 blocks from the grocery are mildly steep, then the last 2 are the steepest.
I used to do part-time medical transcription using a computer. This was from the mid '90s to 2007. What a breeze. I did transcription one summer between college years for my father who was a pathologist. Three copies were a given with one Dr on a case. Some had 3 Drs and each additional Dr added another copy and I was using a manual typewriter with carbon paper. ARGH!!!!
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2 ReactionsOh, I am the first to admit a word processor is a VAST improvement over any kind of typewriter! 😍
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1 ReactionWalking up hill will give you strong leg muscles.
I’ve lived in canyons many years.
Cannot walk the steep hills anymore.
And you can do it carrying groceries.
Good for you.
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2 ReactionsYay for good neighbors, @ellens!!!
Backyard birds are clearing the feeders Each Day and I've had an overnight "garage tourist" who nestles on my outdoor chair cushions. He is becoming less hurried in leaving when I go out and after a week, is now finding a bowl of kitty vittles next to the cushions. Precious doesn't seem to mind but I'm leaving the kitty door closed to the utility hall...smiles to all.
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2 ReactionsI put out "Critter Mix" on my back step during winter. I see all kinds of prints in the surrounding snow. No deer have made it up there yet although they are around here in the middle of Duluth.
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2 ReactionsThanks for the encouragement!
Ellen - I keep my critter mix up on the deck outside the porch, near the bird feeders. I definitely don't want the deer to get me back on their radar, it becomes to hard to get rid of them in the Spring. We have a wildlife corridor just a short walk from our back door that supports a very large herd, and I know there is someone along there feeding corn. As long as they continue, the deer stay in the woods. Our bigger concern is the coyotes and fox - people with small pets have to keep a very close watch. My daughter's neighbor (on the other side of the creek) lost a tiny dog last winter from her fenced in yard.
I have been watching the perching birds enjoy the coneflower and rudbeckia seeds in the snow on the flowers I left standing this year. The blue jay is too heavy and bends the plants to the ground - boy does he get mad.
No walk today - a fine snow is falling on top of the ice left from the last storm. Will go help my daughter pack her dishes and books instead.
Sue
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