Keep on MOVING: June 2019

[Sunshine]

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 doesnt have to be “exercise”! Even Science proves that!

[Virginia]

Sunshine, saw your thread in May for today. You are remarkable, nothing, not even spasms are going to hold you back. Good for you.

Ann, Peter is pretty remarkable too. He irons, listens to jazz and entertains you all at the same time. I now have two more blouses waiting for me.

[agate]

I ran across this article from NEJM Journal Watch. It is based on a study involving "older" women with an average age of 72, and so it probably doesn't apply to most people here. All of you ladies are many years younger than that, right?

But here it is--and if anyone wants to see the whole article, just speak up, and I'll add the link.

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Looks as if taking at least 4,400 steps a day is best. Hmm. I'm not at that point yet.

[Virginia]

Thanks Agate, that sure leaves me out. When I couldn't get my pedometer to work right all the time that is one reason I didn't try it anymore. I found my step count to be depressing.

Steps aside, I couldn't let Peter get ahead of me with the ironing so I washed a load of clothes and starched and ironed two blouses today.

[Sunshine]

We will never approach 4000 steps daily. OR at least I will not. But Virginia, don’t let that get you down, any motion counts.

[Sunshine]

Today I swam 800 yards in 22 minutes.

[stillstANNding]

You are a trooper, Sunshine.

Friday I walked 6 blocks in all to hair appointment and back and did laundry which required many trips on stairs.

Saturday we went to MIL’s and took her to CVS, a Chinese restaurant that was closed, walked back to the car and went to a second restaurant. Then we went to Job Lots, Stop & Shop and Savers. At home I put everything away and then I was done in.

Today we went to a grocery for my steel cut oats w flax seed - Stop & Shop didn’t have them. And we worked in the yard pulling weeds and working to set up my 8 x 3 x 1 foot raised bed. I am done in again. Tomorrow I hope to rest.

ANN

[Virginia]

Today was a very low humidity day here. What a difference it made. I did something I have not done in many, many months, maybe close to a year. I washed hair, got dressed and drove to shopping center to Belk's Dept. Store. I walked over quite a bit of the ground floor and stopped at six counters to check out with items. Then I came home and brought them in the house and went to meet family for dinner. We went to a restaurant close to me. I left there and went to the store to get Peg's family a card. I could have written a note, but hands do not work well enough to write that much, so with the card I can write less. I am very beat.

Tomorrow is hair day.

Congratulations to Sunshine and Ann, who both have had quite a good workout this week-end.

[Sunshine]

Nice Work ANN and Virginia :)

Today I swam 773 yards in 23 minutes. At 3am I had a painful ankle spasm today...Hoping to get UTI results today.

[Sunshine]

Today I swam 773 yards in 23 minutes. I have been swimming despite the stiffening in my feet while I swim, and the lower back pain. So far, so good.

[Virginia]

Sunshine, so good. You did exactly what you did day before yesterday. You are hanging in there.

[stillstANNding]

I’m glad you are able to swim through those symptoms, Sunshine.

ANN

[Virginia]

Well, I picked myself up this afternoon and dusted the entire house, upstairs and down. I have to admit that while you guys on this thread are normally my inspiration, today my friend who died was. She was little, short like Agate, but just dynamite. She had stage 4 cancer at the same time that I had cancer. She went through chemo and then was doing radiation. I walked in the radiation department at UNC one day and there she set drumming her fingertips on the arm of her chair. She was so angry because they were running late and she was so afraid she would miss the people that she was due to go to the beach with. She went from early in the morning until late at night. Always going, always doing, always interested in her friends and others. Last week Peg, this week my friend. We seriously need Cat to come on and say she is alright.

[agate]

Well, I picked myself up this afternoon and dusted the entire house, upstairs and down. I have to admit that while you guys on this thread are normally my inspiration, today my friend who died was. She was little, short like Agate, but just dynamite. She had stage 4 cancer at the same time that I had cancer. She went through chemo and then was doing radiation. I walked in the radiation department at UNC one day and there she set drumming her fingertips on the arm of her chair. She was so angry because they were running late and she was so afraid she would miss the people that she was due to go to the beach with. She went from early in the morning until late at night. Always going, always doing, always interested in her friends and others. Last week Peg, this week my friend. We seriously need Cat to come on and say she is alright.

Your friend sounds like an inspiration. None of this dying business for her, thank you very much!

[Sunshine]

Thats a beautiful tribute to your friend Virginia.

I swam 800 yards in 23 minutes today. Then went to the produce stand. Came home and got fruit ready for a friend who was visiting. An hour visit durned into 80 minutes. I gotta be better about only doing an hour. It was so nice to see her. But, now My legs are worse. I gotta rest an hour before making salad dressing (easy) and a sauté shrimp dish, which is easy except the shelling is yucky and time consuming...I think I will skip taking out the trash to the shed from the shrimp until DHcomes home.

Resting now...