Keep on Moving Club: December 2017

[Virginia]

I swam 1/4 mile plus 50 Yards.500 yard total in 16 minutes. It was warm enough to sit in sun after . (Sorry!)

In the locker room a stranger chatted about a painful and teensy cut on the bottom of her foot she got in the polluted river bottom. I didn’t like its look and told her to go to urgent care just in case. Another said, “lucky you don’t have diabetes”and she replied she does have diabetes....hope she went!

Okay, we get the idea about sitting in the sun. But that is alright we will just get you back this summer when storms start coming your way - we will send you our sympathy!!

[agate]

You were sitting in the what, BBS? The sun? I remember seeing it a while back.

Recent pedometer readings:

12/21 - 1329 steps
12/22 - 928 "
12/23 - 1342 "
12/24 - 1008 "
12/25 - 1044 "
12/26 - 1146 "
12/27 - 1530 "

Not great but my excuse is that the stairwells are bone-chillingly cold and I'm just not inspired to walk around the building. I'm going to try to get over this silliness.

[Sunshine]

That IS Too Great Agate!

Nice numbers :once again:)

[Sunshine]

It is windy, cold (62) and this SPS causes excess shaking when cold. Dang, really wanted to swim.

[Virginia]

Agate, those number of really great this time. Why are you putting yourself down with numbers like that. I would be very pleased.

BBS, sorry no swimming today. Maybe it will warm back up in a day or two where you are.

[agate]

Agate, those number of really great this time. Why are you putting yourself down with numbers like that. I would be very pleased.

BBS, sorry no swimming today. Maybe it will warm back up in a day or two where you are.

Because all of the experts say that at the very minimum a person should do at least 3,000 steps a day, and the 5,000 is what average people do, with 10,000 the ideal. I'm comforted in knowing that reaching 10,000 steps a day is unusual but I'm a long way from that 3,000 minimum.

For someone my age with MS, I'm doing well though. I feel very lucky.

[Sunshine]

We can’t let ourselves fall into the trap of comparing with able bodied people. Your body works harder to make those steps. For all you know, it provides even better benefit than a healthy person gets with 5000-1000 steps.

[Virginia]

I got in a little walking today. I went to eye glass store to get my glasses adjusted, then K-Mart to pick up two Rx's, then to Harris Teeter grocery and did some grocery shopping, then came home and brought groceries in, went back out to Whole Foods to pick up a couple of things plus supper. I came home and realized I forgot eggs so I went back out to Lowe's Foods and bought eggs and a couple of other items.

It is nice to be in. It is supposed to get down to 14 degrees tomorrow night and New Year's Night also. Will be about 31 in day. It got up to low 50s today.

[agate]

Maybe everyone is busy transferring from a 2017 calendar to a 2018 one about now. I haven't started in on that yet but it's always a bit of a project because I need a record of what medical appointments I've been to in 2017, just so I'll know when I last saw this doctor or that one, and then I have to remember to make sure anything important for 2018 that I've recorded somewhere on the 2017 calendar gets entered in the new calendar.

I understand that most people don't use paper calendars any more but when I tried using an online calendar, I had trouble adjusting to it and was making even more mistakes.

I've made many mistakes during this changeover time, almost missed appointments, and got them confused. Maybe this is a cognitive problem, or maybe everyone is like this about the new year.

And while I'm grousing, there's the way I tend to drop things. In the last few days I've managed to drop and break or nearly break 3 fragile items. One of them may be mendable with rubber cement or some other glue. I have a whole collection of glues because I often need to repair things.

Another thing I dropped was a binary clock I got for my son. It was all boxed up and seemed to be working OK when I gave it to him. Years ago I got him one of these, and he kept it on his desk at work but when I heard it had disappeared and that he missed it, I got him another one.

I also dropped a set of carefully packaged refrigerator magnets that I was giving as a gift. I broke the plastic case it was carefully packaged in, and it couldn't be fixed but the magnets are still OK, just not as beautifully packaged. So I gave them as a gift anyway but felt apologetic about having dropped and broken them.

Does anyone else feel like such a klutz most of the time that you often find you're apologizing?

[Howie]

My writing hand is that way. I'm right handed, but not anymore. I tend to have the pen fall right out of my hand. So now I write left handed. I have to go slow, but at least it's readable.

[Sunshine]

I was planning to swim in a wetsuit since it’s chilly out, for Florida. However, I forgot something at the store and that took another 20 minutes to pick up the one item for the soup I am making today. So, I was behind the eight ball in the cooking. I thought if I went swimming it would take an awful lot out of me trying to stay warm, and would not have been able be able to cook a special dinner tonight.

Therefore, I did not swim. I did log in some good activities of daily living by dealing with groceries, dishes, and cooking.

I plan to go surfing in the morning. The wave forecast is great. However, there will be about 55° and it may be raining. Rain is not a problem except for that means there will be no sunshine to warm me up ! Let’s see what happens.

[Virginia]

BBS, sounds like you did the right thing by not swimming and grocery shopping and cooking all in the same day. I hope you will be able to swim tomorrow, but if not you will soon. Florida will not be too cold for long.

Agate, you sound like me dropping things. I do believe I am a little worse in the winter than the summer. I am not sure of that - my hands have become so klutzy all the time. There are times when I use a debit card when I might would like to use cash just because my hands are so awkward. Heaven forbid that I drop a coin in a store because it will have to stay on the floor. I can't pick it up. I can't tell you the number of times I have dropped coins while paying and other people have picked them up. So embarrassing.

I just hope your son's clock is alright. Like you said the magnets will not suffer - just the packaging.