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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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Awesome! Love your doctor who really knows you. My Oby/Gyn Nurse Practitioner called my daughter (who is also an NP and basically my doctor) when I refused any meds after she saw my dexascan a couple of years ago. My daughter told her that we had already discussed it and that she agrees with my decision. I have lived across the breezeway from them for the past 16 years. She has her own business and treats the elderly in the assisted facilities here (20 years).
I have an ENT and an eye doctor but Chris is my go to person who is passionate about food, nutrition and exercise. Both my son and daughter-in-law and kids are all active and healthy so it behooves me to keep up with them. They are all an inspiration and I know I am fortunate.
I have always had osteoporosis but have kept it from getting worse the past several years. I am not inclined to get another dexascan because it won’t change my mind. I also think the young man who performed the test did it “half assed” as they say….forgot to do the left hip.
I have no faith in those results.
Just walked 2.5 miles this morning…have a gym class today….and then my usual after dinner floor exercises. If I couldn’t drink wine (gasp!) I would be having unsweetened grape juice in a wine glass too. Mind over matter.
FL Mary…..66 degrees this morning…yahoo!
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6 Reactions@ess77 , becsbuddy and all you lucky warm weather folks. Up here in the Great White North, and specifically on Vancouver Island where I live, our mornings are way down at 4 Celsius (39.2 F), with howling winds and rain lately. Fresh and invigorating in the lovely sea air! I hope to be able to resume my walking regime sometime (soon ???!! 😔). I KNOW it's coming. I can feel it in my bones!! 😊 Laurie
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3 Reactions@loribmt and all...Thanks so much for sharing this part of your interesting, long, inspiring story or your walk through your transplant. What a story. I like your transplant doc, for sire. I have several at Mayo Jax wh0 have a similar attitude. I appreciate that respect from the doctor. I'm finished with being told what to do, period. It's a very important equal respect relationship some of the new doctors have to learn, hopefully. You and I are teachers, eh?
I think I told you at my 1st after surgery follow-up, I told the surgeon I noticed before our next appt I was scheduled for another.....#17,,, covid nasal test. I looked her in the face, told her that could not happen. I had seen 2 human begins in person since the surgery,. before seeing her. My 80-year-old friend who drove me home, we got 3 feet from each other. She was vaccinated and stays almost as hibernated as do I; the other is my son, who doesn't get 6 feet close to anyone, never goes out, is disabled. Not one person since had I seen. So, if she was concerned about her possible infection, forget it. Concerned about me? I feel safe at Mayo.
She was very surprised.
I said if I must have a test to see you, then I just won't have another visit. And, Lori, I was quite serious. I made a decision, enough.
She was very quiet for a few moments; them she softly suggested we compromise. I agreed to have a saliva covid test before seeing her.
I'm tired and will put my head on my pillow now.
Bless you, my friend. elizabeth
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5 Reactions@artist01and friends, I love Vancouver Island, I would love to live there although I could have trouble with the cold...definitely. Enjoy your lovely home. It's so beautiful there. blessings, my friend. to bed...elizabeth
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2 ReactionsBaby steps! I got in a half mile walk, did a load of laundry, and got a nice dinner in the oven today. Of course, it feels like I worked 8 hours. This surgery nonsense has to stop.
Sue
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4 ReactionsPatience is a virtue. LOL.
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1 ReactionSue....that is what I have been saying for years......"No more surgeries." " Don't fall down mountains, don't sign up for walking adventures and then lag behind. Act your age."
So...I have just had orthopedic surgery #14 and I have no more knees. However, I am getting ready for the second "thumb" surgery in a few weeks. I can't even open jars anymore. Of course, it is the right thumb, my dominant one. I have been putting it off because I don't want to need personal hygiene help during recovery. Oh well.......one more and that is truly going to be it.
Good for you already walking......I think you are the best surgery role model I have ever had.
My best,
Chris
PS....do you know what type of thumb surgery is the best. My other one was "anchovy".
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4 Reactions@gingerw. Congratulations, Ginger! It's so awesome that you got out there, met your goal to reach the little creek (a joy in itself!), and walked a distance you haven't been able to do for quite a long time ! Way to go! Big congratulations to you and your indomitable spirit!! Woootwoooot!! 😊
You've inspired me. I haven't had an outdoor walk since April. I'm planning to sneak past my care aids and staff real soon and give it a try. Real soon! 🤣
Keep up the great work, Ginger. Laurie ❤
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3 ReactionsMaybe you can ask your care manager to put an outdoor, accompanied walk on your care plan. You would be so much safer accompanied by an aid, with a standby wheelchair. Don't want to undo all your hard work at getting better with an untimely tumble!
Sue
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5 ReactionsHi Chris -
I am determined not to need another ortho surgery, but my knees are loudly proclaiming otherwise! Now I am working on my balance and leg strength to put is off as long as I can. (I'm way behind you at only 11 so far.)
I personally am partial to the "tightrope" CMC repair. I have had 2 very successfully, by different hand surgeons,and have active use of both thumbs. My friend is an avid painter, and her tightrope and mine were done about the same time - she also is delighted with hers - we are both able to pursue our passions. We found our initial recovery was about 6 weeks faster than another friend who had the anchovy - she was still in a cast when we started PT - and total recovery was almost 6 months faster.
The thumbs were just x-rayed by my new hand doc, and she proclaimed them "perfect." Unfortunately she couldn't say the same about my wrist - I now have a lovely new black splint to support it (10 years after it was altered.)
I'm not that great a model - have been waited on a lot this past week - but I am determined to head for Texas, so being careful.
Sue
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