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.

(Sorry for the late start on this column)

[Virginia]

Hi Sunshine, just glad to see you. No worries about a late start.

[agate]

Hi, Sunshine,
We're so experienced around here that we've figured out it's OK to be late. I'm often late at everything I do. People are just going to have to put up with it.

[agate]

Some recent step counts for me (June won't have been a stellar month for me because apparently I'm expected to stay in this "walking boot" until early July, and my walking is fairly hobbled).

6/12/23 - 1031 steps
6/13/23 - 811 "
6/14/23 - 2904 "
6/15/23 - 1313 "
6/16/23 - 3558 "
6/17/23 - 1758 "
6/18/23 - 631 "
6/19/23 - 1290 "
6/20/23 - 3304 "
6/21/23 - 1217 "
6/22/23 - 1495 "
6/23/23 - 659 "
6/24/23 - 2596 "
6/25/23 - 985 "

[Virginia]

Wow Agate, you are stretching your legs for sure. Very good.

[agate]

Thank you, Virginia. It helps to have a cheering section. The podiatrist indicated that I shouldn't be putting any weight on the injured foot and yet I'm in this "walking shoe" or "walking boot" (not sure what it's called) that enables me to walk in a hobbled sort of way, and there are days when I've had to make quite a few trips to the laundry room because of waits for the machines, and so I had to do some walking.