Friends,
It’s great to have the PTA students and their leaders back from Bryant & Stratton College
We are so fortunate to have the students and leaders of the Bryant and Stratton Physical Therapy Assistant program join us for the next ten weeks again. They came well prepared and eager to help last Wednesday with smiles and lots of energy and love to share. Welcome back students and THANK YOU!
The students get a hands-on opportunity to help our friends with MS and learn about how MS affects people and how to help them. Our friends with MS get to benefit from the students, their leaders and their expertise. It’s win-win in so many ways. Let’s give them a great experience filled with much love and gratitude.
Nutrition Classes are going very well!
Some people who can’t make it asked about information shared. Janine has been kind enough to make a handout each week. These are available at the gym. Also, here are some links to the handouts so far.
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..\Nutrition Progam\2025\20250512 MS-Food moves Carbohydrates.pdf
..\Nutrition Progam\2025\20250512 MS-Food moves Protein.pdf
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Thanks so much, Janine for leading these classes and sharing so much invaluable information the way you do. Proper nutrition is so critical to all of us living with MS. The challenge is…we’re all different and have different nutritional needs. Janine is sharing her knowledge so well…truly a gift to us. Thank you, Janine!
Seated Balance Class
I love how many people continue to engage in our seated balance class. Anything we can do to prevent falls are certainly worth doing. Dr Kate does a great job with these each week keeping them fun and adding variety. It’s especially fun to these with friends. Great job Dr Kate and everyone who engages in them!
Parking
If there are able-bodied people willing to park across the street in the Acuity lot so people with mobility challenges can park in our lot, please do so. We want to make it easy for people with mobility challenges to park and get into our building safely. Thank you for doing that!
Golf Outing Donations
Great news! Our golf outing is full with golfers and sponsors again this year…exciting!
Now we need to do a great job of creating a great experience for the golfers and sponsors. We still need many items to create some great raffle baskets and silent auction items. We will need these item in hand by the first week in June which is only 2-3 weeks away. THANK YOU to all who are going out collecting donations for us!
This golf outing is a lot of fun and it’s our largest fundraising event of the year. We are very fortunate and thankful to have our friends at ePlatinum Health putting this on for us again this year.
Please check out the sheets at the gym and let us know what you’re willing to go out and get donations for and bring them to the gym as soon as you have them. Thanks so much!
Metals for MS program
We are starting a metals recycling program to help raise money for our mission. You can help! Save your aluminum cans and any other metals that can be recycled. We have a drop off container outside our building. Just drop them off in there and we have volunteers that will sort the metals and take them to a recycling center. If you’d be willing to volunteer for this initiative, please let me know. We could use another volunteer or two for this so it’s not so much work for one person.
Day of Endurance – Saturday, August 23rd 2025
I hope your training is going well. I know some are hitting it hard already and are well ahead of what they were doing last year at this time…good job! We get out of it what we put into it. Please turn your progress notes into Dr Kate bi-weekly.
Let’s make this journey and experience the best yet and have some fun…together. As we begin our training, let’s enjoy each day and record what we do on the packet we put together for you. If you didn’t get a packet, please see Dr Kate or me for your packet. We’re trying to make it really easy for you to record what you’re doing on a daily basis. These will be interesting for you to look back at a year from now. Hopefully, you can do more next year than you do this year.
Remember, try to do daily workouts and just one LONG workout each week. It’s on the one long day that you want to do just a little better than the week before and gradually build up each week.
Ed and Adam’s Podcast
Adam and Ed had a fun conversation with Chuck Scherwinski. Chuck shares his story of living with MS, hobby with old cars, eating healthy, high school football, etc.
Here’s the link:
A Conversation with Chuck by Positive Vibes Living with MS
Thanks Adam, Ed and Ava for doing these podcasts together!
Member Spotlight – Kim Valadez
Kim is working hard while still working and continues to be dedicated to staying ahead of her MS.
Exercise Programs
These classes are aimed to get everyone exercising together. I like that word “together” 
. We’ll need help from volunteers before and after the cardio class on Wednesdays and Fridays to get members on and off equipment. All are welcome and encouraged to join…friends with MS, volunteers, and caregivers.
Monday Mornings
8:00am Rebounding Class
9:00am Nutrition Program – Friends with MS, caretakers and volunteers are encouraged to engage
Monday evenings (open from 4:00pm – 7:00pm)
5:00 pm: High intensity interval training (HIIT)
5:30 pm: Standing balance
6:00 pm: Seated balance
Tuesday afternoons
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm: Aquatic exercise program held at Wildwood Lodge – Pewaukee
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm: Aquatic exercise program held at Wildwood Lodge – Pewaukee
Wildwood Lodge has a lift available to get people in wheelchairs in and out of the pool safely
Wednesdays
8:30am – 9:00am: Cardio exercise
Location: in the big room using aerobic equipment in front of big TV
Pick your favorite piece of equipment to use, bring a water bottle, and arrive a few minutes early to get the equipment set up to your height.
10-10:30am: Cardio exercise
Location: in the big room using aerobic equipment in front of big TV
Pick your favorite piece of equipment to use, bring a water bottle, and arrive a few minutes early to get the equipment set up to your height.
Fridays:
9:30 – 10:00am: High intensity interval training (HIIT) body weight circuit class. Great for those who aren’t attending Friday morning bike rides and want to get their heart pumping! Geared to intermediate to advanced ability level. Class may be indoors or outdoors depending on weather. Find Dr Kate at the start of the class time.
10:00 – 10:30 am: Seated balance class
10:30 – 11am: Standing balance class
Pick the class / classes you feel most able and comfortable participating in. We will have chairs set up to sit on and/or use for balance support.
Email Dr Kate Kern at kborn1234@gmail.com with any questions.
Friday Morning Bike Rides
Unfortunately, the frost warning and cold weather didn’t allow for us to ride last Friday.
It looks like we will be able to ride this Friday as long as it’s not raining. Hopefully we can ride this Friday! We will be riding if it’s not raining. If it’s raining, feel free to come to the gym early.
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. Let’s ride and have some fun!
For those who wish you could join us but can’t; please know we have you in our hearts on these rides. We’re riding with you and for you. I hope you too can join us someday.
Educational Sessions
Friday, May 23rd 11:00 – 12:00 pm: the Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association (WASA) is coming by to host a TryIt of adaptive pickleball! We will play outside in the parking pad. They will have recreational wheelchairs to borrow.
Friday, June 13th: 11:00 – 12:00 pm: Physical Therapists, Kimberly Sawall and Emily Hill from ProHealth Care will talk about the balance triad and how this plays a large role in dizziness and imbalance with mobility.
Friday, Friday, June 27th 11:00 – 12:00 pm: Faith Zahorik, pelvic floor physical therapist from ProHealth Care will talk to us about the anatomy and function of your pelvic floor and core musculature, and the interaction of MS. You will also take home the initial tools to build strength and strategies for optimal pelvic floor health.
Future topics could include: emotional health, nutrition, yoga, tai chi, wellness topics, safe use of gym equipment for your body, best exercise for you and more. What topics would you like to see? Please let Dr Kate, Joan, Traci, Ricky or Dan know.
Let’s get together!
We’ll be getting together from 8:00am – noon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at the gym. Plus, Monday evenings from 4:00pm – 7:00pm. I hope you’ll join us!
Wisconsin Metal Parts – Westmound Building
MS-Just Keep Moving, Inc.
W228N791 Westmound Drive
Waukesha, WI 53186
Prayer Group We’ll be having our prayer group Wednesday from 11:00am – noon.
I just love the way we share, pray and laugh together while we witness prayers being answered weekly. It’s truly amazing!
Thanks goes to God and to everyone that joins us. Let’s get together to share, listen, talk, give thanks, and pray however God leads us.
MS-Just Keep Caring – Our Caregivers support group will be the first and third Friday of each month from 10:00 – 10:30am. The next one will be this Friday, May 16th, 2025. If you’re a caregiver of someone you love with MS, please join us and share your experience of caring for your loved one. This has been very helpful for many. Thanks to all who participate!
Our Facebook page is private. That means you’ll need to join if you want access to all our fun and progress. We’re now at 610 members. That’s awesome! https://www.facebook.com/groups/2639832389489709
Our Facebook page is active and fun. Lots of people are doing more and sharing their journey on Facebook. Feel free to join, post and share your experiences and comments.
There were some awesome pictures, videos and comments shared again this past week. Thank you to all who are sharing!
Thai Massage with Ricky and Nyani
Ricky will be here on Wednesdays doing Thai Massage.
Nyani will be here on Fridays doing Thai Massage
Our goal is to serve as many people who come to the gym consistently as we can with these Thai Massage services. Going forward we will be doing a rotational schedule to accommodate as many people as we can who need and want a massage.
There are some guidelines written up at the gym. Please respect the guidelines so we can serve as many people as we can. Please sign up according to the guidelines.
Here’s a link to the guidelines: ..\Thai Massage\Thai Massage at Just Keep Moving Inc..pdf
Reiki on Wednesdays and Fridays
Reiki is available at the gym, for FREE, on Wednesdays (Mary B, Jill K) and on Fridays (Linda C and Mary R), 9:30am until noon. Sessions typically last 20-30 minutes. Sign up for a session on the white board.
Reiki (ray-kee) relaxes the body so that healing can occur! The “magic” of Reiki has helped some of our members with pain, insomnia, constipation, and so much more! Try it the next time you are at the gym!
Inspirational Humor with Adam Wollert
We’ll be having our inspirational humor zoom call with Adam again next Tuesday. Adam is a gift to all of us. Thanks to all who joined us today!
Please join us if you can.
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
Let’s reach out
I encourage you to share a smile and encouragement with someone. Perhaps you could call someone that you have not talked with for a while just to say hi and see how they are 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 and take action.
Let’s keep moving, smiling and loving It helps!
In God We Trust…we are in good hands.
Dan
Our Website: http://msjustkeepmoving.org/
P.S. If you get a chance to get out in nature, this is a great time of the year to get out there. The weather is beautiful, the colors are beautiful, the critters are active, etc. All of these pictures were taken at Nashotah Park this past week.
I got pretty excited when I saw a Baltimore Oriole in a tree that was all budded out.
At first, I couldn’t get a picture of it so I waited and it kept moving around the tree giving me more opportunities.
I usually don’t share this many pictures of the same subject but I really liked these pics.
I even got lucky and got a flying shot
This little squirrel didn’t think I could see him
I saw some Nashville Warblers too.
This one was sucking nectar out of the buds
This Eastern Kingbird was in the same bushes as the warblers
If you ever watch the White-breasted Nuthatches, they spend a lot of time upside down on trees.
The turtles love sunbathing this time of the year.
If you just want to get out and enjoy the beautiful plants, there’s lots to enjoy this time of the year.
Let’s not forget to look up. I found this hickory nut interesting as it’s still hanging in there from last year as the new buds come in.
There’s just a lot of simple beauty in nature right now if we just slow down enough to notice it and appreciate it.
Even the moths are looking good
For those who can’t get out and enjoy nature due your challenges with MS…my heart is with you. You are with me every time I’m out there. I enjoy being out there and I also enjoy sharing with you. I know how hard it is not to be able to get out and enjoy nature. Let’s enjoy nature and God’s beauty together this way.
