Friends,
I hope you all find joy in your Easter season. If I don’t see you before, Happy Easter!
Danelle O’Neill from the National MS Society, Wisconsin Chapter is going to be moving to Texas soon. We thank Danelle for all she’s done for all of us living with MS while she was with us as the Wisconsin Chapter President. Danelle will be stopping by tomorrow with some of her team mates and the President of the Illinois chapter who will be filling in for her during this transition.
This will be an opportunity to thank Danelle for all she’s done for us and to meet the new people at the National MS Society. Let’s continue to support and be thankful for all the work the National MS Society is doing for all of us living with MS. We certainly need more answers to MS and the National MS Society supports and funds the research necessary along with programs for people and families living with MS. We’re going to miss you Danelle!
A message from Rick about the golf outing on Friday, June 10th:
Tee’d Off At MS Golf Outing fundraiser update: So far we have 13 golf hole sponsors and over 100 signed up golfers. So far things have been coming together well. A couple other events at the golf outing will be a raffle and silent auction. This is where we need your help. We need items, services or events to raffle or auction off. If you know of any individuals, businesses or services who are willing to donate to the golf outing please let us know and bring any item to the gym with its accompanying value. There will be donor golf outing information flyers available at the gym you can use when asking for donations. We’ll need all items in by June 1.
A huge thank you goes out to Rick and everyone else working on this golf outing for us!
Our MS Just Keep Caring program is this Friday from 10:00-10:30. This is a sharing program for our loved ones and care givers. When any of us live with MS our whole family lives with MS even though we wish we didn’t have to drag them through this with us. If you are a care giver of a loved one or a friend of a person with MS, please join us. Your loved one with MS will be in good hands exercising with our volunteers and others with MS during this time.
Nutrition Program – Keep in mind our nutrition program with Alison will be starting Friday, April 29th
Bike Fitting
Jerry Huhn is taking one trike home at a time and tuning them up. Thank you Jerry! We’re going to get some nice weather one of these days.
Let’s get you fitted for your bike now so we’re ready for this spring, summer and fall’s riding. If you’re going to wear clip in shoes, please bring your shoes to the gym so we can get your bike set up for you. We will be doing our best to have the same person riding the same bike each week this year. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get them hooked up and get riding a little more swiftly every Friday morning. We’ll start taking some practice rides from the gym on nice days.
It was 50 degrees Monday morning so I decided to go for my first road bike ride of the season. It started with a beautiful sunrise. I’m thankful I was able to get out.
COVID numbers are finally coming down locally. I sure hope they stay that way. We’re going to get through this thing…eventually. I’m still highly encouraging each of us to be socially responsible and help keep us all safe. I’m not telling you what to do but I’m asking you and highly encouraging you to wear a mask when you’re in close proximity to someone else; whether you’ve been vaccinated or not.
Please 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. Again…let’s be socially responsible and stay safe!
We’ll be getting together again from 9:00am – noon on Wednesday and Friday mornings at the gym. I hope you’ll join us!
Wisconsin Metal Parts – Westmound Building
W228N791 Westmound Drive
Waukesha, WI 53186
Our Facebook page is now private. That means you’ll need to join if you want access to all our fun and progress. Lots of people are doing more and more and sharing their journey on Facebook. Feel free to join. We’re now up to 197 members…awesome! How long do you think it will take to get to 200? Perhaps you can invite a friend https://www.facebook.com/groups/2639832389489709
Tai Massage with Ricky Heldt Ricky will be here Wednesday and Friday again this week doing Tai Massage. Ricky says he is comfortable to work with you even if you’re not wearing a mask. Ricky will continue to wear one to protect you.
Many continue making great progress with chronic pain relief, range of motion, walking better and a new sense of hope when Ricky works with them. Please keep in mind that consistency is key. Not only with Ricky…with exercise too. We need consistency to realize the benefits long term. We want you to have long term relief.
Ricky has a sign up sheet based on first come first serve. 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.
Reiki with Linda Linda will be here on Fridays doing Reiki. Many people say Linda’s Reiki work is “magical”. We’re thankful for Linda offering her gifts and talents to us.
Feel free to let Linda know you’d like to do Reiki with her. She also has a sign up sheet.
MS-Just Keep Sharing We’ll be having our sharing group in person this Wednesday @ 11:00am.
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. Let’sget together to share, listen, talk, give thanks and pray however God leads us.
We’ll be having our inspirational humor zoom call with Adam again next Tuesday. Adam is a gift to all of us. Please join us if you can.
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 call someone that you haven’t talked with for a while just to say hi and see how they’re doing. We all could use a little extra love and encouragement.
MS is tough. Let’s have faith, remain calm, be flexible, help each other and learn as much as we can about the challenges of each day as we make good choices.
Let’s keep moving and smiling 😊
In God We Trust…we’re in good hands
Dan
P.S. Just a simple and beautiful sunset picture to share I took one evening this past week. I didn’t get a chance to get out and take too many pictures this week.
Oh, I did catch the cranes having some fun in our yard again 😊
