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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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@sueinmn
In that weather I think it’s going to take more than a few for full fortification.
Enjoy,
Jake
I found my mittens in the Youth section, where they cost less than the adult version and fit my hands well, too. They are totally wind and waterproof, which is great when playing out with my little grandsons. Earlier this winter, we "tested" our mittens by putting them in puddles of slush - and our hands stayed dry!
In addition, for Christmas my daughter gifted me with beautiful mittens made from felted sweaters and lined with fleece for walking - so now I have 2 great pairs, and can keep one in my car. My girls also crocheted me 2 alpaca hats - so soft, and not the least bit itchy - and made small enough to pull my hood over them. Now I just need a new neck/face warmer fleece - need to dig in my stash for the right thin, soft fleece...
That has to wait - next 3 days will be helping both daughters.
Sue
Off topic, but yup, have been looking lately at all the kitchenware from our 1972 wedding - Club aluminum pans, Pyrex mixing bowls and casseroles, stainless steel salad bowl... then there's Grandma's bread bowl, the vintage cast iron skillets and my Mom's aluminum cookie sheet from 1947 when she got her first stove with an oven and the saucepan she used to warm baby bottles!
Sue
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2 ReactionsI have a number of very warm clothes that would be considered vintage. They still serve their purposes well. Speaking of kitchen items, I still use a Corning Ware coffeepot and other items from my mother, grandmothers, great grandmothers, and even a great-great grandmother.
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3 ReactionsI got married in 1971. It didn’t last but still have some of the cookware! Corning loaf pan, still my Farberware pots and pans I use and love. Every now and then I have to tighten the handle screws, LOL! I only have two fry pans, one small, one large, that have modern non stick coatings, use them for eggs, etc. Otherwise I prefer the real thing. Pyrex bowls, and a steal I picked up from some then elderly neighbors who were moving. Mixing bowls, nested set. Blanking on the name, argh! You’d recognize it in a minute - heavy pottery, pretty colors! Tip of my tongue syndrome! Help!
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2 Reactions@wisco50 Fiestaware? I have old Pyrex bowls and pie plates, single layer cake pans, old aluminum Dutch oven, Corningware loaf pan.
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1 ReactionDINGDINGDING! 😍 Yes, Fiestaware, thank you! LOL! It’s great for bread dough rising in the largest bowl. I warm my oven up a tiny bit, then put the bowl with dough in it - holds warmth nicely. Pretty too!
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2 ReactionsOff topic,
In hospital,, cant stand, walk seecradhed car snow not why in HOSP
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1 ReactionNot sure what “seecradhed car snow” meams?
@wisco, I don't have Fiestaware but do the same as you for bread dough rising. Turn oven to 200 then turn off and put in dough...it does speed the time for both required risings. Yay for time savers!!
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