March 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.

[agate]

Thank you, Sunshine, for starting this month's Keep On Moving thread!

I've been keeping up with my slightly revised exercise routine. I do my 15 sit-to-stand exercises each day and am very gradually finding them easier. Sometimes I'm even able to do a few without involving my arms. And I do a few new exercises just extending my arms back. I'm trying to counteract my tendency to hunch forward.

And I just finished my 3rd week on Fosamax and like to think my bones are getting less spongy by the minute.

We do have to keep on moving. Inactivity leads to some crippling effects--pain and inability to move muscles we need to move.

[agate]

Average step count for February: 1,711 steps/day (based on 24 days). Not as good as December or January but better than November.

[Virginia]

Agate, sounds mighty good to me.

I exercised today for first time (I hate to say this) weeks. ID Theft is extremely time consuming. Plus I am suffering bad MS fatigue. Ikoiko can probably relate.

[Virginia]

Trying to figure out if my WiFi is working

[agate]

I'm seeing your post. That might mean it's working?

[Virginia]

Have a new computer and not sure what it is going to do. It is real nice, but I am getting use to it. Thanks Agate for answering my post.

[agate]

I looked around on the Internet by asking Google a few questions, and it looks to me as if adjusting to Windows 11 won't be so very difficult if you're familiar with Windows 10. Congratulations on the new computer! Adjusting to that change can be a challenge but soon you'll have it working well for you, I'm sure.

[Virginia]

It is working well, thanks Agate. My brother, Eric bought it along with a new monitor, keyboard, external speakers external backup system and everything that can go with a computer. It is a very nice setup. I am so appreciative. He came yesterday and worked hooking everything up. He had taken a backup of all the apps I had on my old computer and transferred it to this computer at his house. I had told him to look around and find one for me and I would buy it, but he had ordered one for me the day before I said that. He will not let me pay him for it and that worries me.

He jokes that he is in the possession of a "classic" which he can either donate to a museum or sell for a fortune. The reason he says that is because I have had my old computer since about 2011 and never had it worked on. That is quite amazing. He also fixed my Fire tablet which was on the blink.

He installed a protection program that he had bought for his computer and thinks it is one of the best. You can put it on three computers and he put it on his, his father-in-law's and mine. I don't know where he learned all this, but he has always been smart about mechanical and technical stuff.

I don't know what to do to repay him.

[agate]

That is really wonderful news! People with chronic conditions that limit mobility are in need of a working computer, I think--more so than many other people, and that may be why some MS organizations are giving computers and tablets away sometimes. I don't know if you need to think about repaying your brother. He's probably just very glad you're still here and getting along OK and wanted to do something to brighten up your life. Losing your brother recently was definitely sad for you and for him. Seems to me like a good time to accept a treat, and I'm sure later on you can think of some ways to help him, even if it's just treating him at a restaurant.

MS really takes a lot away from us. I was just thinking today of how hard I worked at teaching myself to play the recorder and teaching myself to quilt. I put years of effort into both of those activities, and I did that years after being diagnosed with MS. But for many years I haven't been able to do either one of them. I gave away my quilting fabrics and sold my recorders quite a while ago. That's just one small example of how we learn to do without this and then that as time goes by. Maybe we should take pie when pie is passing more often, as the saying goes.