BALANCE - at least I can still spell it. Sometimes I find myself going back 2 or 3 steps before I can go forward 1 step. I don't use a cane in the house unless its a REALLY bad day. But, THANK GOD for walls and furniture - I usually have a bruise on my shoulders from careening off the walls. I moved here in September and I'm sure some of my neighbors thought I was the biggest drunk they ever saw and a VERY SLOW drunk at that! I maybe slow, and I may stumble, stagger, and bounce off walls, but I evntually get to where I'm going.
I'm having my carpeting removed because I keep spilling things and I can't keep the carpet clean because vacunming is just too much for me let alone a carpet cleaner! I sure can't afford a carpet cleaner to come in every week or two. The balance thing is an issue with me because I use to do ballroom dancing. I still turl but not intentionally. (My PT said that the dancing that I use to do may be why my balance is better than she expected). One day instead of just being able to spin on my toes as I use to do to change direction, I had my "bad" leg planted and used my "good" leg to do a circle with very small steps! I just had to laugh at myself - it was as if my "bad" leg was glued to the floor! I've found that I have to concentrate and focus on where I'm going - it seems to help my balance! But, if I let just one more thought into my head, I start staggering, stumbling and careening off the walls. I sure can't multi-task anymore especially when I'm walking! Well, I've bent your ear enough. Prayers and thoughts, Candy K. -----Original Message----- >From: Regina Rummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 18, 2007 8:54 PM >To: cakalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [TMIC] osteoporosis > >Candy, Rosalie, All..... > You describe exactly how I feel... > Going for a walk, a cane on my right hand, and holding on to my daughter's > arm on the left is the only way I can walk the two long blocks down the > street and back, collapse on the chair, gasping, and feeling as if I had > climbed Mount Everest... > At physical therapy, they push me really hard, as my doctor prescribed, and > I am having the worst time with these balance exercises. I don't understand > how balance can improve when our feet are numb and throbbing, etc. and as in > my case, feeling a combination of a little dizziness and vertigo. What do > you do about balance? > Monday's physical therapy really "done me in". > As far as the osteoporosis, I don't even want to get the density test > because I know I'm in bad shape, I don't want to hear it. All I have to do > is look at my shrinking wrists. Yikes!!! > It's 5:46PM and I haven't done my exercises today. Bad girl am I. > All right, I'll do them now. Or maybe not. Yes, I will! > Thank you for lending my babbling your ear, and please tell me what you do > to work on your balance. > R > > > > >cakalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since TM, I've said that walking for me is like a marathon for a "normal" > person. After 50 feet or so, I'm soaked and feeling like I'd done a 5K > marathon - or what I would think it would be like. Even doing dishes is a > major taks anymore. I know my heart rate increases by walking or doing 15 > minutes of work and it takes several minutes for my heart to calm down to a > normal pace. >I think with TM, it is a resistance type of exercise - it takes so much more >for us to move - so much more than before - and everything we do is a >challenge and an exercise in determination. >That's my 2 cents worth. >Prayer and thoughts for each and every one, >Candy K. > >-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Jul 18, 2007 8:12 PM >>To: "tmic-list-at-eskimo.com" >>Subject: [TMIC] osteoporosis >> >>Rosalie, >>After 18 mos with TM, my PCP sent me to an Endocrinologist for a thorough >>osteo blood work- up to go along with my bone density test. I told him of my >>concern that I wasn't getting any weight bearing exercise and he said that >>standing 45 minutes a day was sufficient. I was confident that my time in the >>kitchen each day met that requirement. I can walk, but walking 45 minutes at >>a time would be impossible. Isn't it nice to know that the whole day of >>walking and standing counts for something? >>Patti - Michigan >> > > >Candy K. > > Candy K.
