June 2023: Keep on Moving

[Sunshine 2]

MS creates some real challenges to keep on moving. It helps to inspire each other on how to find ways to move.

Did you stretch in your bed, swing your arms, roll side to side today? Or perhaps you did housework? Or exercised in a pool? Tracked your count of steps? Chased your cat around the home? Pushed the wheelchair wheels with your arms at the store? Post them here and we can support and egg each other on.

REMEMBER: this is a keep on moving thread, not keep on exercising! Any moving is important it doesn't have to be exercise! Even Science proves that.

[agate]

Thank you for starting this thread so promptly, Sunshine!

I'm trying to keep up with my exercises but every fall brings on some new pains that last for a while, and this one is no exception. So I've had to go easy on a couple of the exercises in the last 10 days but I'm gradually getting back into them.

The sit-to-stands that are supposed to be so ultra-important couldn't be done tonight because my back was acting up but I'm hoping for a better day tomorrow. I'll try to make up for today by doing twice as many of them tomorrow.

Some people aren't saying much about their exercising. Maybe they aren't doing any. Or maybe they are doing so much of it that they just don't have time to talk about it.

[jingle]

[agate]

jingle, is that you with your cat?

A cat can be very comforting. People say cats are indifferent to people but that hasn't been my experience at all.

[Virginia]

Jingle, I know you have several cats. Do you have a favorite?

[jingle]

I have two cats, brother and sister, approximate birthday 12 June, 2010. My favorite is the one who is sitting on me at the time. Brother and sister
and they are as different as night and day.

[agate]

One's a lapsitter and one isn't?

Of the cats I've had, some loved laps and others weren't having any of the lapsitting routine.

[Virginia]

That's the problem with cats. You never know what you are going to get. Sometime a dog will kind of take on their owners personality and if they don't you can usually train them.

[agate]

Virginia, cat people like the way you can't teach cats anything. It puts the cat in charge, in a way. Whatever the cat wants, the cat often gets. It gets interesting, to put it mildly.