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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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@jakedduck1 Don't you think that a Medic Alert would have been a good thing at that time, Jake? How did you get help? I almost gotcha equalled for blood pressure today, I think. 175/92, pulse 81. What's going on, my nurse wondered? We're quite the pair!
Take care, Jake.
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2 Reactionsok, Jake! What's going on with you? This isn't alright my friend. Did you have any warning of something happening? Was it some kind of seizure but not grand mal? Related? ...how did you get help?????? Ok, Lori and I are going to fuss....I'm ckg into a medic alert as I know I need one. They do make a fall detection system as well as just 'help' call or whatever. I've been researching them. I'm not pleased with the prospect of the ongoing cost and need to figure that out, but I definitely know I need this thing for my safety. I have been on the floor and ground several times and crawled to a fence to pull myself up, which I could do that time. After a fall last year inside, I couldn't get up or even crawl to the chair or wall to try to get help. I was in a pickle and needed an alert.
So, how did you get help? How long in hospital? Mini stroke? TIA? What did the doctor say? I'm running through all the things I think might have those symptoms. So, please share with us .You are a wonderful person and I am blessed to know you. You are one of very few who truly knows what life with seizures is like and you know far better than I how tough it is.
Be safe. Know you are loved. Blessings and peace to you, my friend. elizabeth (Lizzy)
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1 ReactionHi @jakedduck1
Try to be smart about caring for yourself. If the doctor wanted you hospitalized but then released you on the condition that a home health agency would check in on you, please follow their instructions.
You haven't got much to lose if they come for a visit periodically. I'm sure you can probably work it into your social calendar if you try. ☺
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4 ReactionsWe had a wonderful walk this morning. A rare sight is the night blooming Cereus cactus - aka the barbed-wire cactus because farmers used to use them instead of fences. It blooms around 2-3 am - and is gone by 10-11 am.
Then we rounded the corner to inspect my friend's cactus to see if the blooms were closer to opening and spotted the pink blooms a miniature barrel cactus - they opened in the hour we were out walking!
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6 ReactionsMy walk wasn’t thrilling this morning. Went for a short walk on the trails near me then off to the dentist. Hoping I can get to usual tomorrow, if we don’t get snow!
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3 ReactionsWow! I love the cactus blooms. they are stunning.....Good walk, thanks for sharing. blessings, sue. elizabeth
I receive periodic messages from the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal, which was recently recommended elsewhere on Mayo Connect.
Here is an interesting Lesson (?) on the value of keeping on walking to slow the effects of aging - just what we are all trying to accomplish: https://healthhq.s3.amazonaws.com/en/mobility/lessons/walking-speed/v2/index.html?endpoint=14&referrer=3
I'm out to walk with a friend as soon as I finish my class.
Sue
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2 ReactionsMy walk was great today! How was yours @artist01 and @ess77 ? And we haven’t heard from @mayofeb2020 in awhile! We’re are you?
I went out to the park today to meet a friend and we started walking with our dogs. We met up with a 3rd woman and her dogs and we’re happily walking. Then my dog Poppy lay down on the grass and wouldn’t move! Not an inch. I told the others to go on and I’d catch up. As soon as I got to him, he jumped up and walked the opposite direction! He wanted to go home! And it was a gorgeous day. He’s a spoiled dog!
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2 ReactionsWe have been trying 2 walks a day morning and late evening to avoid the 100f temps. I'm sure a week from now I'll miss the heat. But I have a new sleep strategy - an evening walk at a more leisurely pace, followed by a warm shower, has improved my usually awful sleep pattern. When I get home, I'll have a willing partner for the evenings - neither my daughter nor I enjoy TV, and get fidgety after supper, so we'll have a nice stroll - might even offer to take the neighbor's sometimes fussy 10 mo old to give her a break.
Sue
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2 ReactionsLike your plan, Sue. Good times of day for our hot, humid areas. Sometimes.....the mornings here get warm and humid pretty early, but late evenings this time of year are lovely. I love early morning, but can't physically do it anymore. I was up by or before 5 every morning for years when my son was young and going off to school, I was heading to work, etc. But, the last 10+ years the mornings are really tough. The body goes into fearce rebellion, won't function! Stubborn body and that's just the way it is. So, I now enjoy the sleeping in later with my kitty.
You know, Tuesday I took my son to Mayo for his vaccination. I took my hot pink walker and walked the buildings for my walk, stopped on the way back to meet him and got yogurt parfaits for my breakfast for 2 days, some green tea for going home and a couple of chicken salad scoops for dinner. Love those Mayo food stops. They have excellent foods for what they are. Appreciated by this patient....
Blessing on your walks....when do you head to snow country? Reset your thermostat, I suppose. elizabeth
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