To keep limber and to keep the abilities you (or your child) have is to always continue to exercise and or stretch out your limbs to keep them as usable as they can be for your entire life. The more you stay active the longer you will be able to live on your own.
I know I talk incessantly about exercise but I will say it is about as important as putting a healthy foods inside your body. I try my hardest to stay away from the sodas, fast foods, and many candies for a reason. I also live in a state that has a portion of our populatuon has a big type II diabetes in the nation because we have allowed our children and ourselves to live off of sodas, high fructose juices and more snacks that are unnecessary when apples, melons, grapes, and more fruits (as well as easily snack-able vegetables) readily available that have none of the added ingredients that ruin our health therefore cause disease and many times early preventable death
I will close now by saying whether you have cerebral palsy or not, please remember it is up to you to take care of yourself and your family. The easiest way to honor your family by taking a few minutes to exercise and prepare the proper dinner instead of bring home the bag of burgers or having pizza delivered. Remember to that the vest conversations happen at the dinner table. A
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Monday, June 24, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Staying Busy is Not Hard
The thing that is hard for me is remembering that I must take time to relax and rejuvenating myself so that I am the person I want to portray to others. I do love to stay active despite what my girls believe I would be out and about more often if it were not for my need to get only a minimal amount of sun due to the medications I am on to stay healthy and get them from place to place. My son being older seems to understand which is nice. The thing is my son is 17 so he understands but even so as a younger child he would find friends in the neighborhood that he could spend time with instead of relying on me to entertain him.
My basic goals are to stay healthy enough to get the girls to activities such as gymnastics and sometimes bowling or even walking around the River Park. The things I plan are things that are either indoors or take less than and hour in the sun to complete. I feel bad that I feel I cannot take them to the public pool because of the lack of shade and the fact that I may accidentally spend too much time in the sun and thus become sick and not be able to get them home safely. I know it hurts them when I say no and see them stomp away as if it is their fault and I simply do not love fun.
I love fun I just have limit the amount of fun I do have at once. I enjoy life for the most part and get frustrated because I am unable do more than I do already. The fact is, yes, without my cerebral palsy I would most definitely be more physically active than I am now.
My basic goals are to stay healthy enough to get the girls to activities such as gymnastics and sometimes bowling or even walking around the River Park. The things I plan are things that are either indoors or take less than and hour in the sun to complete. I feel bad that I feel I cannot take them to the public pool because of the lack of shade and the fact that I may accidentally spend too much time in the sun and thus become sick and not be able to get them home safely. I know it hurts them when I say no and see them stomp away as if it is their fault and I simply do not love fun.
I love fun I just have limit the amount of fun I do have at once. I enjoy life for the most part and get frustrated because I am unable do more than I do already. The fact is, yes, without my cerebral palsy I would most definitely be more physically active than I am now.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Morning Life
Simply I am the person in the household that makes sure that everyone gets where they need to go at the right time. In the mornings this summer that means that I get my husband out of the house for his 8 a.m. class he teaches during this first session of summer class at the university where he teaches. Waking him us is a task in and of itself because he is a late-night person and who suffers from insomnia. I on the other hand am a morning person and don't do nights.
After getting up and taking a shower I get the dogs out one at a time in a certain order because if you go out of order chaos ensues for the next twenty minutes sometimes more. The order is oldest to youngest (Henry, Snickers, then Sara). I drag the dogs to their dog run via their leashes and the hilarious thing is if gone in order Henry is still going to the bathroom by the time I get to Sara while Snickers is at the water dish. Life is great I would not change my daily workout with them for anything.
If I still feel the need for exercising after getting the dogs out around 6:30 a.m. I will mow the grass, now that my mower is back in business. If the lawn does not need mowing I will go on a walk at the River Park -- within this last week I really have not had to make that choice because the lawn needs work. Yesterday, I finally finished my backyard so now I will start the front because it has been two weeks or more since it was done.
Around 7 a.m. is finally a chance for me to relax and get my coffee, while it is still quiet, and turn on Good Morning America and catch up with my internet friends on Facebook. If I am lucky I get about three hours before I start getting bugged from one or both of my girls proclaiming that they are bored and want to do something or get on the computer. I usually make them wait until noon before I will even fathom getting up and doing anything or at least giving them the computer.
Oh wow, I am an average stay at home mom -- not really having to define myself as a mom with cerebral palsy. My hope here is to show that many of us are like any other adult that does adult things around the house. My mom didn't raise someone who was just going to be a vegetable and need attendants to carry out my daily tasks.
After getting up and taking a shower I get the dogs out one at a time in a certain order because if you go out of order chaos ensues for the next twenty minutes sometimes more. The order is oldest to youngest (Henry, Snickers, then Sara). I drag the dogs to their dog run via their leashes and the hilarious thing is if gone in order Henry is still going to the bathroom by the time I get to Sara while Snickers is at the water dish. Life is great I would not change my daily workout with them for anything.
If I still feel the need for exercising after getting the dogs out around 6:30 a.m. I will mow the grass, now that my mower is back in business. If the lawn does not need mowing I will go on a walk at the River Park -- within this last week I really have not had to make that choice because the lawn needs work. Yesterday, I finally finished my backyard so now I will start the front because it has been two weeks or more since it was done.
Around 7 a.m. is finally a chance for me to relax and get my coffee, while it is still quiet, and turn on Good Morning America and catch up with my internet friends on Facebook. If I am lucky I get about three hours before I start getting bugged from one or both of my girls proclaiming that they are bored and want to do something or get on the computer. I usually make them wait until noon before I will even fathom getting up and doing anything or at least giving them the computer.
Oh wow, I am an average stay at home mom -- not really having to define myself as a mom with cerebral palsy. My hope here is to show that many of us are like any other adult that does adult things around the house. My mom didn't raise someone who was just going to be a vegetable and need attendants to carry out my daily tasks.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
I Miss My Lawnmower
I have a Black and Decker rechargeable battery operated push lawnmower that I have only had a little less than a year and I had to take it in a month ago to have it looked at and am still waiting for the repair place to get back to me on what is wrong. Apparently when my husband and I bought it we bought it at Walmart not knowing that it was a refurbished mower (thankfully we got it only for $100) but there was no warranty because of the fact that it was not brand new. Even so we are now waiting for my mower to get looked at to see if I am going to be able to afford to get it repaired so I can start mowing my own lawn again.
I so miss getting my exercise through mowing.This is one thing that I do not let my disability get in my way. I mentioned once that my dad taught me how to walk with a toy shopping cart well I liked the lawnmower which is rather easy to start and push to that toy cart. Of course with the mower I do not have to tape my hands to the handle or put bricks on it but the concept is the same I push while walking behind it.
I am hoping to get my mower back by the end of next week or the following depending on what is wrong with it and if it will cost less than $200 to fix it For now I am having a kid mow my lawn for a little bit of money which is frustrating because I really like and depend on physical exercise to keep lean and mean. You have to know that I am a person who will walk around the Arkansas River around the Trail of Tears and court house which is about a two mile walk just for the beauty and exercise alone. I feel bad that I have gotten out of the habit but soon I will have to start again because I notice the difference both physically and mentally when I do not exercise.
I so miss getting my exercise through mowing.This is one thing that I do not let my disability get in my way. I mentioned once that my dad taught me how to walk with a toy shopping cart well I liked the lawnmower which is rather easy to start and push to that toy cart. Of course with the mower I do not have to tape my hands to the handle or put bricks on it but the concept is the same I push while walking behind it.
I am hoping to get my mower back by the end of next week or the following depending on what is wrong with it and if it will cost less than $200 to fix it For now I am having a kid mow my lawn for a little bit of money which is frustrating because I really like and depend on physical exercise to keep lean and mean. You have to know that I am a person who will walk around the Arkansas River around the Trail of Tears and court house which is about a two mile walk just for the beauty and exercise alone. I feel bad that I have gotten out of the habit but soon I will have to start again because I notice the difference both physically and mentally when I do not exercise.
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