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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)Comment receiving replies
Oh dear! I am not that motivated by indoor exercise. I tend to hunker down - have spent all week at my computer doing a big project, but I do get up every hour, stretch, warm my tea & move around. Lori - you're right - even the old Air Force parka doesn't stand up to this windchill. My husband got a great gift from our daughter & son-in-law - a battery operate warming vest - that he has gotten much use from this winter - especially because his workroom is the cold spot in our house, and we play out with the littles. Not today or tomorrow though - we'll be jumping, dancing and hopping in the playroom!
Sue
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@sueinmn Ohh the warming vest sounds wonderful! I’ve often wondered about that and I’ve also seen electric socks, because those are what I need right now! Brrr.
Truly, I’m not at all motivated to do indoor exercises. Walking, I’ll drop anything and head out several times a day. However, after a shocking diagnosis of osteoporosis after all my AML chemo and bone marrow transplant, my transplant doctor gave me a year to see what I could do myself before having to take bone building meds. I was warned during all my treatments that osteoporosis could be a side effect. But since I’d never had any bone deterioration, certainly it wouldn’t happen to me! LOL. Well, it did. So I worked with a PT to target crucial areas and this last DEXA scan showed a reversal in the osteoporosis to osteopenia!!! My doctor, husband and I were ecstatic with the news. So, that is what keeps me motivated to work those muscles routinely to stay off the meds! Have fun with the munchkins today!!
@sueinmn We have a damp cold this morning, with fog, 37 degrees. Snow was last week. We are outside doing projects while it is a "no rain" situation. Moving firewood, cleaning street gutters [slight in some spots, steep downcline down to corner and around] that don't get cleaned unless I do it. Today adding air vents and overhang to north side of wood shed, and final prep for the 2021 Great Roadtrip hubby leaves on Tues. Your husband's warming vest sounds like one mine has for his motorcycle. He plugs it in to an outlet on either of the bikes, or in the Jeep, which has no heater.
Ginger
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I have heard those heated vests are nice, can you share the brand name?