Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Poppy, I enjoy mowing the lawn but haven't since surgery etc. seven years ago. We used to have a small house on a large lot. When we moved, we got more house and less lawn so DH and I are both happy. He hates mowing and would just as soon let it revert to prairie but those darn neighbors keep their yards nice, so we do too.

Exercise for the past week was walking Weds, gym Thurs, walking at noon on Friday then out to supper for classic Midwest Friday Fish Fry with the moms and SIL last night. Today is Art Fair on the Square in Madison so lots of walking, and tomorrow taking mom to Drums on Parade. We both love drum & bugle corps. Monday off work but have eye doc appt in the morning then gym in the afternoon.

Membership (free for the summer!) includes three sessions with a personal trainer. Gave him the SUSO exercise guidelines paper (see links below to the papers for trainers and exercisers) and bless his little 20-YO heart, he'd never heard of lymphedema. So thanks to Nats and others, we are continuing to spread the word. One CAN exercise safely after breast cancer treatment!

http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Trainer%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf

http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Handout%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf

Velvet, you could ask if they would let you have a free week (or a couple free classes or whatever) to see if you like it or not. Lots of places do things like that so people can 'try before they buy'.

Walked in a charity 5K this morning & did some pilates this afternoon.

spent last week by the coast where, unlike here at home, it was cool enough for beach walks every day. Back to swimming tomorrow!

Meanwhile, my ortho doc's office rescheduled my apt that was scheduled for next week, at which I was supposed to figure out when I can do my knee surgery...so still don't know if I can join those of you going to Florida. Fingers crossed though!

Art Fair on the Square was wonderful. There were artists from all over the country and so many beautiful and unique works of art: wood, metal, glass, ceramics, fiber arts, painting, photography, and jewelry. I bought a photograph of one of the funky old faded doors at Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Haven't been there yet but it's a goal and this is a nice visual reminder. Love me some jazz! The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is giving a free concert in Madison next Friday night. Thinking of attending and maybe bringing the photo for them to autograph.

Sunny yesterday but cloudy today. Rain forecast for tonight. Hope it holds off until after Drums on Parade.

Finishing 2nd cup of coffee then headed out for a walk. Will be sitting a lot today, in the car & at the stadium.

60 minute walk. Felt like 90 but weather app says only 78 so must be the humidity. Remainder of today will be more relaxed. Pick up clutter, a little laundry etc to get ready for another work week.

I'm getting my downstairs carpet cleaned on Tuesday, so I've spent the afternoon dragging everything but the heavy furniture into the bathroom, furnace room, and uncarpeted spare room that contains the treadmill & other "stuff". I am now going to force myself to do an hour of spot toning with Denise Austin.

Had a lovely bike ride this afternoon on the rail trail with my DH DD and the littlest ds, who is now 4🙂. My 15 year old DS has a job at the beach, don't remember if I said that so please forgive me for repeating myself. He's there w grandma and grandpa and his cousin. It's a lot of back and forth from home to the Jersey Shore but that's summer around here!

Go, KB! Sounds like good work is getting done!

Hi Everybody! Just finished reading through all the posts since the last time I was on. Today we returned from a week at Emerald Isle Beach. This is the 29th year we have been going to the beach with my side of the family. Lots of walking, shelling, laughing, eating, and drinking! After unpacking I went for my walk/run. I miss the ocean breeze!

This is a storm that blew through. Very impressive!

I love the picture of the storm. Very Byronic. I am nicely trained for the Big Ride next weekend. Did 90 miles this weekend, half of the distance yesterday which included lots of hills, despite the pictures below. Legs are "having a chat" with me. Not sore, but tired. No flat tires.

On the cycling shorts front, the megabux ones didn't fit. Fortunately, I can return them and get my money back. Something to do with a combination of a much slimmer fit and firmer compression fabric. YIKES!!! The lady issuing the return label knew exactly what I was talking about because she's a cyclist and wears the same brand. They didn't have any one size up.

Which turned out to be a good thing, because guess what I found as a brand new listing on eBay. One generation earlier, and knickers, not shorts. But they should work fine, and they are HALF of what I had paid for the latest and greatest. I am thrilled, especially since they should be here in time for next weekend.

Here are two pictures from yesterday. Ready to roll....... - Claire 

Wonderland and Claire- absolutely loving those picture!

sweetandspecial- lol! Cereal bowls! Yes, that's a term I'll use to describe the tissue expander. I've overused the phrases "turtle shell" and "iron bra" too often.

KB870, ruthbru and sweetandspecial- you all remind me that there's a reason they call it house/yard WORK. Boy, it's a good workout! Nice to see results for our efforts both where we live and for our bodies for the exertion, too.

pink_is_my_colour- congrats on you! Glad you are doing what you can, despite the fact that you're weathering the chemo storm.

Made it to Zumba today. Couldn't really move my torso very well given pain, but did as much with the hips and legs that I could. Got dizzy after 45 min, so had to stop and hydrate and stretch. I love class so much, but it is discouraging not being able to keep up. Going to try to do as much as I can before I have to take another hiatus with exchange surgery at the end of the month.

love to all.

Worked out last night and today is just doing housework.

KB - wow - shingles are heavy. You got a great upper body workout. Badger - hope you can get to the jazz concert. Great storm pic, Wonder! The sunny pic looks like a much better beach day. Love the mountains in the distance in your pix, Claire. PInk - good for you for resting those 3 days when you needed to, then hopping on the treadmill when you were able. Burner - don't worry about not being able to keep up - you were smart to stop when you needed to. It will all come back once you're out of active treatment. I remember a yoga class I took right after chemo - I think I spent half the classes in child's pose because I couldn't keep up, but at least I was there. A few months later, I was doing the Warriors with the best of them.

Weeded gardens and power washed a lot of the patio this weekend at the cabin. Getting ready to head to my fitness class in a few minutes. Also starting to pack for a trip to LA, leaving Friday. My MIL is 89 years old - in good health but we like to get out there when we can. She still lives alone in the family house, and we're able to do a lot of chores for her when we're there. We talked to her yesterday and she already has a "honey-do" list ready for us, starting with cleaning out the garage, so it sounds like we'll be busy.

Burner - may I ask what sort of pain you're experiencing? I had what turned out to be serious nerve pain after my mastectomy/expander placement. Normal painkillers didn't help at all. Once my surgeon realized it was nerve pain from my description of a burning sensation she switched me from Norco to Gabapentin (aka: Neurontin) and within days I was pain free. Still very stiff with limited range of motion, but pain free. If your expander placement was way back in December it doesn't seem right that you should still have that much pain unless perhaps the expander(s) are simply pressing on or poking into soft tissue.

I should check in on the tissue expander pain thread. Haven't been there for months and months. That thread saved my sanity before my pain meds got switched.

Just hauled all the clean laundry up and put it awa

Planning a workout for tonigh