Keep On Moving - July

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With apologies for being late with this, I'm posting the monthly "Keep On Moving" thread, originally started and maintained by Sunshine 2 (formerly known as BBS1951):

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.

I've been keeping up with the new exercises prescribed by the physical therapist a few months ago. And the new pedometer counts steps somewhat differently from the previous one (and some days it just doesn't work) but my average step count for June was 1,159 steps/day, based on 25 days. That is just a tad better than May (1,157).

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That's much better than I do. It's hard to have much enthusiasm,walking to and fro in a small flat. There was talk of being accompanied for walks outside. That's been hampered by their family/ work commitments, and the heat.

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In this building I have to walk almost the length of the building several times each time I do laundry, which is at least twice a week, and just to take the trash out almost daily, I need to walk even farther and go outdoors. To get my mail almost daily I also have to walk almost through the building which has 12-14 apartments on each floor and so is fairly long.

I make the rounds of the first floor every evening for exercise but gave up on doing that on the other 3 floors for the most part because it wasn't especially interesting.

Just walking around my apartment wouldn't give me enough steps. In fact my step count is still far below where it should be according to those experts out there.

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Was told on Friday that therapy will be ending soon. I question how much good it's done. It's come across strongly, the expectation of stressful events produced to order. The reality? It's not like that. There can be several OK weeks, and then something unexpectedly triggers me. Avoidance as part and parcel of the traumatic experience? The things you avoided, as much as the overt emotional reactions.


















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Tim, you've added a photo--and it looks as if it may be you. I hope to be seeing better if/when there is cataract surgery but for now I can't seem to enlarge it. There's probably a way that I don't know about. I'm guessing it's you with a couple of children in your life?

Not sure what kind of therapy you're writing about in your post though. It sounds as if it's psychotherapy and not physical therapy? Are you saying that avoiding situations that might trigger an unwelcome emotional response works for you?

It works for me but I believe there are still therapists who would insist that facing those triggers head on is the only way to go. Maybe that works for some people but I'm not one of them.

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It's me with two of the great grandchildren. I'm regarded as a dad,granddad,and great granddad, via my marriage to my late wife.