Friends,
We’ll be getting together from again from 9:00am – noon on Wednesday and Friday at the gym. I hope you’ll join us!
I love how many of you are sharing the progress you’ve been making since we started getting back together. Thank you for sharing! We’ve experienced over and over that once we finally start making progress, we continue to make progress. It’s a slow process and we need to be patient and consistent with stretching, exercising and moving. We’re proving that we do make progress when we work hard at it despite our challenges of living with MS. Let’s keep moving and making progress. Please continue to share your journey and your progress!
It’s awesome to see Joyce making so much progress. She even got out for a bike ride with Larry.
Ask Joyce about the progress she’s making working with Ricky too. She’s doing much more all by herself again. It’s awesome to see! I’m really looking forward to seeing the progress she continues to make over the next year or two. Keep doing the hard work Joyce and showing all of us that we can make progress.
We realize the virus is not gone yet but it looks like the numbers are way down and many of us have either had COVID or have been vaccinated. We’re backing off on the mask wearing request and leave it up to you to make good decisions about wearing a mask. If you have concerns, please wear a mask. Either way, please be respectful. Thank you for being so understanding, cooperative and respectful through this entire pandemic. I’m thankful we’re getting through it.
One of the most important things you can do is to stay home if you have any symptoms or know you’ve been exposed to someone with the virus. Please don’t come until your symptoms go away. Let’s also give each other some space when talking to one another and continue wiping the machines down before and after you use them with disinfectant. Let’s stay safe!
Ricky Heldt will be here on Wednesday and Friday again this week. We just finished our first full month of having Ricky join us and many of you have reported making great progress with chronic pain relief, range of motion, walking better and a new sense of hope. Please keep in mind that even with Ricky, consistency is key. We need consistency to realize the benefits long term. That’s why we’re having Ricky here both Wednesday and Friday mornings. We want you to have long term relief. Ricky will have a sign up sheet based on first come first served. You can pick the time slot that works for you. I highly encourage you to take advantage of Ricky’s Tai Massages each day and sign up for your time slot as soon as you get there.
It looks like we should have nice weather for our Friday morning bike ride again this week. I hope you’ll join us!
We’ll be meeting Friday morning at 7:00am at Nettesheim Park in Pewaukee. It’s on the SE corner of Hwy SS and Oak Street. The GPS address is: N26W27495 Prospect Ave, Pewaukee, WI 53072. Come a little early so you can get your bike out of your car and be ready to ride as close to 7:00 as possible. We’ll ride until about 8:45.
If you need me to bring a trike or a tandem for you, please let me know as soon as you can so I can bring them.
If you’d like to ride but don’t know how you’d do it, please let me know. We’ll do our best to figure out a way to get you riding. We get pretty creative😊.
The National MS Society’s MS Bike ride is coming right up. We’ll have a one day ride August 7th. It will be a good time and we’ll be raising funds for the National MS Society which is important for us to continue supporting. They fund research and programs for all of us living with MS. Let’s do our part by riding in the ride together and inviting our families and friends to join us. For all of you who wish they could ride but can’t, we’re riding for you. We need to get this MS thing figured out.
Here’s a link to our Peppy Pedaler’s Team page: https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=9627
You can join our team from this link
Here’s a link to my personal page:
https://mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=29680
You can read my story and make a donation from this link
Last week, our prayer group was once again…powerful! I just love the way we share, pray together and witness prayers being answered weekly. Thanks goes to God and to everyone that joins us.
Our prayer group will be in person at the gym as well as on zoom this week at 11:00am on Wednesday. We’ll get together and share, talk, listen, give thanks and pray however God leads us.
MS – Just Keep Moving Prayer Group
Wednesdays @ 11:00amJoin Zoom Meeting with this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82689557013?pwd=NzNEL0ExYkpSdnE5RllCQXlJeVo1UT09
Meeting ID: 826 8955 7013
Passcode: keepmoving
We missed Adam this afternoon on his inspirational zoom call but we still had a nice chat with the people that joined us. We’ll be doing it again next Tuesday. Please join us if you can…thank you!
Inspirational Humor with Adam Wollert
Tuesdays @ 1:30PM
Here’s the link to join us…I hope you do!
Join Zoom Meeting with this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9431389152?pwd=bWlYbFNaazVnM1M1cWxWMitlODdXUT09
Meeting ID: 943 138 9152
Passcode: 3qP2hu
Phone: 1-312-626-6799
Meeting ID: 943 138 9152
I encourage you to share a smile with someone. Perhaps you could give someone a call that you haven’t talked with for a while just to see how they’re doing. We all could use a little extra love and encouragement during these times.
MS is tough. Let’s stay calm, focused, healthy, flexible, have faith and learn as much as we can about the challenges of each day as we make good choices. Better days are ahead.
In God We Trust!
Dan