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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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Well I guess I’ll go for a walk now, good sense seems to have escaped me this morning besides it’s supposed to be 106 today.
Jake
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1 ReactionYikes!! 106 is more than hot. Take it easy, @jakedduck1
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106 is sissy weather wait till it gets 110+ that’s when it starts to get warm up. I don’t really like it to be really hot but I would rather have that than trying to survive in those subzero frigid conditions you survive in. If I came there in the winter I know the second I stepped out of the plane I would flash freeze and knowing my luck I’d fall down the stairs and break into a jillion pieces. I’ve never lived anywhere else but here so I guess I am a custom to the weather. We had a winter storm once that I remember, the main headline on the front page read “Major storm hits valley“ hope you’re sitting down for this next line we got an entire quarter of an inch of rain during that storm. That’s California for you.
Take care,
Jake
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3 Reactions@jakedduck1 I'm glad I was sitting down, Jake. Wow, 1/4 of an inch of rain. You folks do suffer, don't you?
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2 Reactions@jakedduck1 Wow that is hot you should live near the coast we will be only in the 80,s today Be careful take your water bottle with you wear a hat
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1 Reaction@hopefull33250 It is funny here to see them just stay in and wont even drive in it . The 1/4 inch last time we had I went out for a short walk to feel the rain ,felt good . Yes Californians are sissy's when it comes to rain.
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2 ReactionsHeading out for my walk - thanks for the reminder @lioness - grabbing a water bottle too. Braved Costco and a couple other places during senior hour this morning - heartened to see everyone working in the stores wearing masks, and of course all customers in Costco, as well as at least 75% elsewhere - and they were even pulled up over noses! Everyone also seemed aware of distancing.
Tried out a new mask design and found it very comfortable to wear - I'll share it this evening on the face mask discussion - can't waste this beautiful weather at the computer.
Sue
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4 ReactionsI sympathize with all of you struggling to walk or exercise with pain. When I was recovering from on of my hip replacements, had very limited mobility, and needed to move regularly to prevent blood clots, I did what my in-laws used to do when housebound by extreme cold or icy conditions in northern Minnesota - house walking. Every hour I would get up and walk around my house - into and through each room, out again, onto the next... and keep it up for 5 minutes. When my Mom was recuperating from one of her strokes, we did a modified version - hall walking. Using her walker, she would walk as far down the apartment hall as possible, with me following pushing her wheelchair, rest a minute in the chair, then walk home. She progressed over time to walking laps of the hall, and later laps around her building outdoors.
Maybe a version of house walking (or yard walking) several times a day could work for you?
Sue
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4 Reactions@lioness When we rented a VRBO in Denver for my son's wedding our room had one of those beds, it was heaven. It was less than a month after I had the femur fracture (trochanter so really hip, and minimally displaced but still hurt a lot) and after breakfast, I would take one of my pills, I forget what it was, and go back up to bed and sit up and read.
I hope your knee improves quickly. As if us older folk don't have enough problems, we sure do not need to have knee and hip problems on top of everything else.
@jakedduck1 We got our walk in this morning when it was only 80° and were sweltering by the time we got home. It's 89 now. UGH.
@sueinmn I'm actually jealous that you went to Costco! We are still only having delivery or curbside pickup. Invariably we end up with something that is substituted incorrectly. I so much prefer shopping for myself.
@funcountess If you just close your eyes when you are in the MRI tunnel doesn't that help? I am never bothered by it with my eyes closed.
JK
@rosemarya I'm glad to hear your foot is getting better. Don't rush it like I generally do. I pay for that afterward.
JK