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Monday, May 19, 2014
Walking Your Way to Health and Longevity
Who's got a big brain? Well, I should if we are to believe the cool information in this article. Maybe this explains why my 91 year old mother is healthy, with no health issues except for her blindness due to macular degeneration, and mentally sharp. She walks about one mile every day. She can't walk very fast anymore since she can't see in front of her to take long strides, but she keeps at it. And, I'm sure it's working.
Also, this week, I read a couple of other items that might be of interest and motivating for all walkers. First is the idea of charitymiles.org . There are 28 charities for which you can raise money by walking, running, or cycling. Once you sign up with the site, it tracks your distance and donates a quarter for every mile you walk or run or a dime for every biked mile. Pretty cool, huh?
Nexercise.com is an app you can download that will track your activity so you can qualify to win gift cards from a variety of stores.
Runtastic.com/en/apps is a site to register for a pedometer app so you can score points to redeem at a variety of retailers like CVS or Amazon. Or, you can choose to donate your points to a number of nonprofits. $1 - 1000 points.
So, if you can't get motivated to walk for your own wellbeing, maybe you'll walk for someone else's or to score some fun stuff. Think now what you'd like to buy at Sephora or Home Depot, for instance, and sign up with Nexercise.com to get started toward your little wish. Or, round up some friends, register everyone for charitymiles.com and plan an hour or so each weekend to walk together and contribute to the charity of your choice. No way to lose with these ideas. And, you just might get a 'big head' , er, uh, a bigger brain. Smarter too!
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Getting Spiritual On You
The subtitle of this blog is 'walking the neighborhood and the Twelve Steps'. If you're not familiar with the Twelve Steps, bing it and learn a little. The Twelve Steps I work are those of Al-anon. The original Twelve Steps are for Alcoholics Anonymous. There are other Twelve Step groups, from Alateen, to Overeaters Anonymous, and groups for Gamblers, Sex Addicts, and others I'm sure.
Why do I include the Twelve Steps here? Well, years ago, when I began my walking journey, I was also beginning my Twelve Step journey. I had family members who were in treatment for substance abuse and I was overwhelmed, in a great deal of emotional pain, 75 pounds over weight, addicted to sugar (and food in general), and had no spiritual life at all. I hoped there was a God and that S/He would help my beloved family members.
As I began to work the Steps with the help of others who attended the same meetings I attended, I began to learn about a Higher Power and how that HP acted in my life and in the lives of my loved ones. At first, I was skeptical. I was, at best, an Agnostic. I had never needed or accepted emotional support from anyone and wasn't about to now. I was too strong and too smart to turn my will over to anyone/anything else!
But, there it was. Two family members who were foundering, lost, in pain, and in severe need of help that I had no idea how to offer.
I put my dog on a leash and walked out in the cold, the rain, the snow. I walked twice a day. I walked because I was running away from my pain. Little did I know that I was running (by walking) toward solutions for myself. Since the Steps teach us that we did not Cause the disease, could not Control the disease, and could not Cure the disease - what was my role? What was I to do?
I walked and began to talk to God as though He was right there next to me (because I was advised to do so by a very smart person). The conversations were often not very pleasant. I was angry, hurt, sad, overwhelmed. I was PISSED!
You know the saying - No Pain, No Gain? Well, it's true. There will be no change (gain) unless one is in enough pain to seek help, a solution, or at least a road map. There I was, large and in charge of my own life - and watching it crumble around me.
Those walks saved my life - and my relationships with my family members. I can't say God talked back to me - but things began to change. Walking itself began to improve my physical health - and certainly improved my mood. Walking in cold, blustery, icy, gray winter weather is not fun. But, it is WONDERFUL!!! The gift of that day, each day, was immeasurable. My family members began to get better. They began to learn how to take care of themselves and to live without the false God of drugs and alcohol.
I walked my way right into a new life. A life with a Higher Power who I still fight with from time to time. A life with family members who were slowly learning how to live without the false strength of outside agents - to rely on their won innate strengths to deal with whatever life threw their way. I was learning to live without the false need of sugar and too much food - an attempt to fill what had been a black hole of pain, despair, and self righteousness.
The joy of walking off 65 pounds was mine! The understanding that my Higher Power was working in my life to do for me the things which I could not do for myself. For a person like me, that alone was a miracle. Forget the 65 pounds. Know that I was one who ruled the world around me with the power of my own will, my anger, my intellect, and my forcefulness. I could steamroll almost anyone to get my way. But steamrolling makes you no friends, makes people want to avoid you, makes the black hole grow exponentially every hour to Edge God Out. That's called EGO.
Once I learned that I didn't have to have ALL the answers - that it wasn't up to me to run the world - those 65 pounds dissolved from my body and were lifted off my shoulders and my spirit. No Joke. No Coincidence. No Other Possible Reason.
I walked for a year that way - hoping that things would get better. Setting a goal to walk to the grocery store ONE MILE from my front door. Leaving the house when my teenagers were fighting with me or each other. Refusing to referee or offer solutions. Who was I to tell them what was right for them to do? I did not abdicate my role as a parent. I removed myself from their decision making processes so they could grow up and not need me to sort things out for them.
Whatever happened during that year (and there were ups and downs, I can assure you), at the end of it, I had learned some very valuable lessons:
1. I could walk a mile.
2. I could ask God to help me with any problem.
3. I could find solutions for my own problems on my walks because I was walking with my Higher Power even when I was yelling at Him (and that was not a rare occasion).
4. I could improve my eating and lose weight. Notice I did not say diet or some sort of magic no more craving. I am, above most everything, a realist. One of the reasons I would never drink alcohol or take drugs is because, no matter how bad reality might be, I prefer it to the fuzzy brained result of imbibing alcohol or drugs. I was a control freak and needed to be sober to be in control.
5. I could have - and did have - a better life.
So, now you know more about me than you need to. My point is not to inform you of the details of my life. My point is to encourage you to find your own solutions to whatever ails you (and we all have thorns) - and that asking for that help is neither a sign of weakness nor an easy way out.
Doing for yourself what no one else can do for you is a very valuable insight. Take care of yourself. Nobody but your mom cares about you more - so do what's right for you.
These insights are what made me word my 100% Guarantee exactly the way I did. It's the facts of life as I know them. You don't need all the gory details of my life to prove it to you. Improve your own life one step at a time.
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Why do I include the Twelve Steps here? Well, years ago, when I began my walking journey, I was also beginning my Twelve Step journey. I had family members who were in treatment for substance abuse and I was overwhelmed, in a great deal of emotional pain, 75 pounds over weight, addicted to sugar (and food in general), and had no spiritual life at all. I hoped there was a God and that S/He would help my beloved family members.
As I began to work the Steps with the help of others who attended the same meetings I attended, I began to learn about a Higher Power and how that HP acted in my life and in the lives of my loved ones. At first, I was skeptical. I was, at best, an Agnostic. I had never needed or accepted emotional support from anyone and wasn't about to now. I was too strong and too smart to turn my will over to anyone/anything else!
But, there it was. Two family members who were foundering, lost, in pain, and in severe need of help that I had no idea how to offer.
I put my dog on a leash and walked out in the cold, the rain, the snow. I walked twice a day. I walked because I was running away from my pain. Little did I know that I was running (by walking) toward solutions for myself. Since the Steps teach us that we did not Cause the disease, could not Control the disease, and could not Cure the disease - what was my role? What was I to do?
I walked and began to talk to God as though He was right there next to me (because I was advised to do so by a very smart person). The conversations were often not very pleasant. I was angry, hurt, sad, overwhelmed. I was PISSED!
You know the saying - No Pain, No Gain? Well, it's true. There will be no change (gain) unless one is in enough pain to seek help, a solution, or at least a road map. There I was, large and in charge of my own life - and watching it crumble around me.
Those walks saved my life - and my relationships with my family members. I can't say God talked back to me - but things began to change. Walking itself began to improve my physical health - and certainly improved my mood. Walking in cold, blustery, icy, gray winter weather is not fun. But, it is WONDERFUL!!! The gift of that day, each day, was immeasurable. My family members began to get better. They began to learn how to take care of themselves and to live without the false God of drugs and alcohol.
I walked my way right into a new life. A life with a Higher Power who I still fight with from time to time. A life with family members who were slowly learning how to live without the false strength of outside agents - to rely on their won innate strengths to deal with whatever life threw their way. I was learning to live without the false need of sugar and too much food - an attempt to fill what had been a black hole of pain, despair, and self righteousness.
The joy of walking off 65 pounds was mine! The understanding that my Higher Power was working in my life to do for me the things which I could not do for myself. For a person like me, that alone was a miracle. Forget the 65 pounds. Know that I was one who ruled the world around me with the power of my own will, my anger, my intellect, and my forcefulness. I could steamroll almost anyone to get my way. But steamrolling makes you no friends, makes people want to avoid you, makes the black hole grow exponentially every hour to Edge God Out. That's called EGO.
Once I learned that I didn't have to have ALL the answers - that it wasn't up to me to run the world - those 65 pounds dissolved from my body and were lifted off my shoulders and my spirit. No Joke. No Coincidence. No Other Possible Reason.
I walked for a year that way - hoping that things would get better. Setting a goal to walk to the grocery store ONE MILE from my front door. Leaving the house when my teenagers were fighting with me or each other. Refusing to referee or offer solutions. Who was I to tell them what was right for them to do? I did not abdicate my role as a parent. I removed myself from their decision making processes so they could grow up and not need me to sort things out for them.
Whatever happened during that year (and there were ups and downs, I can assure you), at the end of it, I had learned some very valuable lessons:
1. I could walk a mile.
2. I could ask God to help me with any problem.
3. I could find solutions for my own problems on my walks because I was walking with my Higher Power even when I was yelling at Him (and that was not a rare occasion).
4. I could improve my eating and lose weight. Notice I did not say diet or some sort of magic no more craving. I am, above most everything, a realist. One of the reasons I would never drink alcohol or take drugs is because, no matter how bad reality might be, I prefer it to the fuzzy brained result of imbibing alcohol or drugs. I was a control freak and needed to be sober to be in control.
5. I could have - and did have - a better life.
So, now you know more about me than you need to. My point is not to inform you of the details of my life. My point is to encourage you to find your own solutions to whatever ails you (and we all have thorns) - and that asking for that help is neither a sign of weakness nor an easy way out.
Doing for yourself what no one else can do for you is a very valuable insight. Take care of yourself. Nobody but your mom cares about you more - so do what's right for you.
These insights are what made me word my 100% Guarantee exactly the way I did. It's the facts of life as I know them. You don't need all the gory details of my life to prove it to you. Improve your own life one step at a time.
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Walking May Be As Effective As Meds
Great news in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper today. A study (not the first) has demonstrated that walking may be as effective as medications in treating a variety of medical conditions, both physical and emotional.
Ah, hem.... I think I've written that before. They could have saved themselves a bunch of federal grant money in funding the research simply by asking walkers what the benefits of walking are for them.
If you have fibromyalgia or arthritis, the gentle movements of walking aid in the lubrication of joints, warming and stretching tendons and muscles, and the release of nature's painkiller, serotonin.
If you suffer from back pain, knee pain, arm pain, etc, walking acts the way just described to benefit those conditions, often removing the need to take over the counter analgesics (painkillers) like Tylenol or prescription painkillers.
For the 'blues', SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and other mild depressive states, walking and other forms of physical activity are extremely helpful. Again, the release of serotonin in the brain is triggered by the physical activity. Whatever form of physical activity is enjoyable for the affected person, from bowling to dancing to walking to swimming to tennis, improves the positive outcome in these conditions, used alone or in conjunction with pharmaceuticals. However, don't stop taking prescribed meds if you are on them without speaking to your doctor!!!
I am not a doctor. I am not a nurse. I am not an attorney. But, I am a reasonably well informed adult with a brain and the ability to connect the dots in my own life. For me, walking is energy. Walking is good health. Walking is social. Walking is spiritual. Walking is essential.
If you have doubts about any of this, you have nothing to lose - oh, and a great deal potentially to gain - by giving walking a chance. If you have no serious physical impairments, get a good pair of shoes and walk at a comfortable pace for 15-20 minutes every day.
If you have been very sedentary, have physical limitations, or live in a place where you can't walk safely outside, strap on the most comfortable pair of shoes you own and walk in place in front of your television during your favorite TV shoe.
As I've written before, if you walk only during the commercials in a typical one hour TV shoe, at the end of the hour, you will have walked in excess of 20 minutes.
Start slow so you don't strain muscles or over exert yourself. But, walk! Walk for 2 minutes, for 5 minutes, for 35 minutes. Start with the time you have or the time you can remain active without becoming short of breath. To boost your work out, sing along to the radio or talk to a friend. That increases the aerobic part of the exercise. If walking is not for you - do what is for you! Bowl, shoot hoops, hit a tennis ball against the garage door, throw a tennis ball at the front stairs, find a pool and swim, skate, bike (real or stationary), even use one of those $25 little bike pedal devices you can buy at any Walgreen's.
Move your body and you'll begin to feel better. Move your body and you'll decrease your pain and improve your mood. Just move!
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Ah, hem.... I think I've written that before. They could have saved themselves a bunch of federal grant money in funding the research simply by asking walkers what the benefits of walking are for them.
If you have fibromyalgia or arthritis, the gentle movements of walking aid in the lubrication of joints, warming and stretching tendons and muscles, and the release of nature's painkiller, serotonin.
If you suffer from back pain, knee pain, arm pain, etc, walking acts the way just described to benefit those conditions, often removing the need to take over the counter analgesics (painkillers) like Tylenol or prescription painkillers.
For the 'blues', SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and other mild depressive states, walking and other forms of physical activity are extremely helpful. Again, the release of serotonin in the brain is triggered by the physical activity. Whatever form of physical activity is enjoyable for the affected person, from bowling to dancing to walking to swimming to tennis, improves the positive outcome in these conditions, used alone or in conjunction with pharmaceuticals. However, don't stop taking prescribed meds if you are on them without speaking to your doctor!!!
I am not a doctor. I am not a nurse. I am not an attorney. But, I am a reasonably well informed adult with a brain and the ability to connect the dots in my own life. For me, walking is energy. Walking is good health. Walking is social. Walking is spiritual. Walking is essential.
If you have doubts about any of this, you have nothing to lose - oh, and a great deal potentially to gain - by giving walking a chance. If you have no serious physical impairments, get a good pair of shoes and walk at a comfortable pace for 15-20 minutes every day.
If you have been very sedentary, have physical limitations, or live in a place where you can't walk safely outside, strap on the most comfortable pair of shoes you own and walk in place in front of your television during your favorite TV shoe.
As I've written before, if you walk only during the commercials in a typical one hour TV shoe, at the end of the hour, you will have walked in excess of 20 minutes.
Start slow so you don't strain muscles or over exert yourself. But, walk! Walk for 2 minutes, for 5 minutes, for 35 minutes. Start with the time you have or the time you can remain active without becoming short of breath. To boost your work out, sing along to the radio or talk to a friend. That increases the aerobic part of the exercise. If walking is not for you - do what is for you! Bowl, shoot hoops, hit a tennis ball against the garage door, throw a tennis ball at the front stairs, find a pool and swim, skate, bike (real or stationary), even use one of those $25 little bike pedal devices you can buy at any Walgreen's.
Move your body and you'll begin to feel better. Move your body and you'll decrease your pain and improve your mood. Just move!
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Walking In The Fall
I just returned from walking three miles on a glorious, sunny, Autumn morning! This is such a great way to start a day. While I'm not a 'morning person', I consider a walk starting between 9 and 11 AM to be a morning walk. That starts my real day.
I am energized by walking earlier in the day. Many days, I have no opportunity to get in my walk earlier than about 5 PM. I'll take it whenever I can get it - but earlier is better. And, sunshine is really fantastic! Those Winter evenings when the sun is down by 5 PM are close to depressing for me.
But, that's when there are other options. The gym, the mall, or walking in my own family room, right there in front of the TV.
Other easy ways to 'sneak in' some extra steps or pump up your workout will not be news to you, but may be something you want to rethink and mindfully incorporate into your schedule. Take the stairs. Park farther away from the door. Pick up your pace a little. Wear a backpack or carry hand weights to increase the benefit of your workout. (A note of caution about this last one. If you have arthritis, be sure to ask your doctor before adding weight to your routine as it can place more stress on your joints.) Walk on your break time rather than get a snack. Walk your kid to school rather than put the little one on the school bus. I'm sure there are other 'tricks' that don't come to mind right now.
One way or another, I am determined to get in at least 20 minutes of walking (or dancing) a day. I bet you can too!
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
I am energized by walking earlier in the day. Many days, I have no opportunity to get in my walk earlier than about 5 PM. I'll take it whenever I can get it - but earlier is better. And, sunshine is really fantastic! Those Winter evenings when the sun is down by 5 PM are close to depressing for me.
But, that's when there are other options. The gym, the mall, or walking in my own family room, right there in front of the TV.
Other easy ways to 'sneak in' some extra steps or pump up your workout will not be news to you, but may be something you want to rethink and mindfully incorporate into your schedule. Take the stairs. Park farther away from the door. Pick up your pace a little. Wear a backpack or carry hand weights to increase the benefit of your workout. (A note of caution about this last one. If you have arthritis, be sure to ask your doctor before adding weight to your routine as it can place more stress on your joints.) Walk on your break time rather than get a snack. Walk your kid to school rather than put the little one on the school bus. I'm sure there are other 'tricks' that don't come to mind right now.
One way or another, I am determined to get in at least 20 minutes of walking (or dancing) a day. I bet you can too!
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Father Has His Day
What are you getting Dad for his Special Day? How about some walking shoes? Buy him a nice, sturdy pair of shoes and a good pair of socks. Maybe a gym membership. Maybe a treadmill. Maybe just take him for a walk after dinner. Today and tomorrow and often after that.
We want to keep Dad around a long time don't we? If Dad walks, he'll remain healthier, live longer in good health, set a great example for kids and grandkids (and even the kids on the block), and get a smile on his face.
If all else fails, get him the shoes and a dog. He'll be forced to walk or clean up a lot of messes. Yes, I'm evil. But, my intentions are good.
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
We want to keep Dad around a long time don't we? If Dad walks, he'll remain healthier, live longer in good health, set a great example for kids and grandkids (and even the kids on the block), and get a smile on his face.
If all else fails, get him the shoes and a dog. He'll be forced to walk or clean up a lot of messes. Yes, I'm evil. But, my intentions are good.
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Small Steps To Betterness
I heard a sad tale today about a guy I've know for about 40 years. He moved away about 25 years ago for his work, so I have not seen him regularly although we share enough friends in common that I've kept up with his life. He married a great gal about 40 years ago and they've been married all this time, living here and there, working, no kids.
A few years ago - probably 10 by now - this guy suffered a health set back which started with back pain. He's a tall guy, almost 7 feet tall, and large all over. With his back pain, he began using a walker. He worked every day, but fell one day, broke his shoulder, lost his job, and things went from bad to worse.
Now, he walks only from the hospital bed in his house to the door where his wheel chair is as he can't fit the wheel chair through his bedroom door. He sits all day, plays video games (often with another friend a couple states away), eats, bathes in his special tub, and then hobbles back to his bed. Such a life I would wish on no one.
The friend who told me about the tall guy is heading to visit him in a few days. We discussed our friend's miserable life - and miserable it is! He has only his wife and his sister, no money, and a world that is encompassed in three rooms (one of which is a bathroom). I think one guy is gonna take on the other guy, demanding that he do something with his life besides play video games! We both think that our troubled friend could improve his life with just a little effort.
He doesn't seem to be depressed. His wife is a great gal who loves him with her whole heart. His sister is nearby, but he is almost unable to leave his home. He owns a converted van to accommodate his wheelchair, but traveling is an ordeal to say the least.
Why did this happen? How did this otherwise healthy, happy, friendly guy allow himself to fall into a deep well of unhealthy behaviors that resulted in his almost complete withdrawal from his own life? How can he continue on this downward path when it would take only a few minutes a day to improve both is health and his outlook?
So, what can be done? We discussed an intervention. I can't be there physically, but all his friends can bombard him with phone calls and emails on the same subject. Dude, we want you healthy. We want you happy. We want you alive!
Since he is still able to walk a bit, it makes sense to me that he would build on that to improve his outlook. Walking only a few extra minutes each day - plus the 10 steps from his bed to his wheel chair - would quickly add up to benefit him. The day might soon arrive when he could more easily walk to his van and fulfill his promise to drive to St. Louis to visit all his old buddies.
We can't make him do it. We can only inform and encourage. We can hope......
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
A few years ago - probably 10 by now - this guy suffered a health set back which started with back pain. He's a tall guy, almost 7 feet tall, and large all over. With his back pain, he began using a walker. He worked every day, but fell one day, broke his shoulder, lost his job, and things went from bad to worse.
Now, he walks only from the hospital bed in his house to the door where his wheel chair is as he can't fit the wheel chair through his bedroom door. He sits all day, plays video games (often with another friend a couple states away), eats, bathes in his special tub, and then hobbles back to his bed. Such a life I would wish on no one.
The friend who told me about the tall guy is heading to visit him in a few days. We discussed our friend's miserable life - and miserable it is! He has only his wife and his sister, no money, and a world that is encompassed in three rooms (one of which is a bathroom). I think one guy is gonna take on the other guy, demanding that he do something with his life besides play video games! We both think that our troubled friend could improve his life with just a little effort.
He doesn't seem to be depressed. His wife is a great gal who loves him with her whole heart. His sister is nearby, but he is almost unable to leave his home. He owns a converted van to accommodate his wheelchair, but traveling is an ordeal to say the least.
Why did this happen? How did this otherwise healthy, happy, friendly guy allow himself to fall into a deep well of unhealthy behaviors that resulted in his almost complete withdrawal from his own life? How can he continue on this downward path when it would take only a few minutes a day to improve both is health and his outlook?
So, what can be done? We discussed an intervention. I can't be there physically, but all his friends can bombard him with phone calls and emails on the same subject. Dude, we want you healthy. We want you happy. We want you alive!
Since he is still able to walk a bit, it makes sense to me that he would build on that to improve his outlook. Walking only a few extra minutes each day - plus the 10 steps from his bed to his wheel chair - would quickly add up to benefit him. The day might soon arrive when he could more easily walk to his van and fulfill his promise to drive to St. Louis to visit all his old buddies.
We can't make him do it. We can only inform and encourage. We can hope......
*************************** Remember my 100% GUARANTEE. Should you decide to stop walking and resume your old habits, I personally guarantee that you'll get back 100% of your former life - your pain, your lifestyle, your attitude. You can trust the information you find here. It's from a dedicated walker. Trust me and your life will get better! I promise.
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