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MAC and getting the COVID vaccine
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 29, 2021 | Replies (163)Comment receiving replies
I just went to gym twice this week ( 3 weeks after second Moderna shot), first time in a year. It felt great. Ive gained a lot of weight --- before Covid I was pretty fit for my age. I used to go to personal trainer 2s week for weightlifting and flexibility , also group gym classes, and two types Pilates classes weekly (barre and reformer)-- which kept me in OK shape. I finally recognized I have no will power to do planned exercise on my own, but I will go to an appointment-- so I scheduled it into my life. I stopped all of those except one the pilates classes (where the teacher is doing it online) , last March. And I gained a tone of weight and got out of shape -- it will be hard to recoup my fitne4ss at age 70, plus Im short so the wright shows. I live in place with a lot of winter weather so I need organized activities to stay fit. LabCorps has an antibody test that can measure your titer (quantify of IgG antibodies) against the spike protein which will measure your response to the vaccine. It is new--approved in Dec 2020;
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Granny, I think you deserve some credit for harboring excellent intentions. After all, lots of people seem not to even give a rat’s butt about their fitness.
I hatched an aphorism several years ago with which I suspect you’ll resonate: CONSISTENCY TRUMPS INTENSITY.
At age 81 my “routine” has decelerated to “pumping” light dumbbells with my wife 3 x weekly along with a short daily walk which I do faithfully, pressing thermal underwear into service on cold days.
At walk’s end I reward myself and my wife too, though she did nothing to deserve it beyond being wonderful. Coffee for me, tea for her along with a bran muffin I bake for us both.
Notice the “reward” is enjoyed following the fitness activity. B.F. Skinner would be so proud of me. Although I doubt ole Skinner would agree that being generically wonderful
is worthy of reinforcement. He seemed to be an anhedonic sorta guy.
So here’s the formula. Choose something you really enjoy and make it contingent on exercising. Treat yourself like a lab rat; gotta run the maze before you reach the M&M dispenser. Try it and tell us all about it. Don
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Do you need a doctor's order for the antibodies test? Do you just find a location and make an appointment? I have had no reaction whatsoever to either dose. My arm wasn't even sore after the second one. I'd feel safer knowing I have antibodies.