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7795. arkymalarky - 9/23/2012 11:09:50 PM Did day one of week six and the next run is the first without a break. Twenty minutes. Hope I can do it. Funny how many folks are getting into running around here. Never thought I'd be one of them. Hope I get through the program, but I enjoy it way more than I thought I would. Mose and SIL were training for half and full marathons respectively. Don't know if they still are. Our agri teacher and his sister are. He did last year and finished and is back up to 15 miles. Several other friends and family are doing 5k. 7796. judithathome - 9/24/2012 7:10:19 PM Congrats on sticking with this program...I know I could never do that. Props to you! 7797. arkymalarky - 9/24/2012 9:39:12 PM Thanks! I don't have any joint issues and my allergies haven't interfered with my lungs when running--they do with Mose, who often gets asthma when she runs outside--so it's been really surprisingly enjoyable, especially in this weather. I usually see any activity I call exercise as sheer drudgery. Once a stroll is a routine of walking I see it as an obligation and look forward to the end. I think this is different because it's a progression toward a goal as opposed to a routine, and it's quicker. And since it's three days a week, it's easy to stay on schedule. I feel excited I'm accomplishing to set a goal and reach it, and I hope the ease and enjoyment keep me at it. 7798. arkymalarky - 9/27/2012 1:26:32 AM I posted to pump myself up for today when I was doing my first 20 minute straight run, and I did it! I think I can get through the rest of the program now. 7799. judithathome - 9/27/2012 4:32:28 PM Yay for Arky!!! 7800. arkymalarky - 9/27/2012 7:04:14 PM Thanks! 7801. thoughtful - 10/3/2012 2:21:35 PM Good for you....I used to run 3 miles in the am before heading off to work, but 2 herniated disks in my neck kinda put an end to it. That and I also hated running. I do love walking though and will often walk for 3 to 4 miles when I go. Some cardio with the hill climbing, but I really need to get into weight lifting...just getting too flabby and unhappy with my weight....though I'm not unhappy with what I eat!!!
:0 7802. alistairconnor - 10/3/2012 4:46:33 PM Hey Tful, is a bicycle an option? I hate running too. I run when I'm late. Half an hour's cycling before work ought to be worth a try... Much less damaging than running (unless you fall off of course!) 7803. arkymalarky - 10/3/2012 8:13:52 PM Thanks Thoughtful.
I like riding a bike but it bothers my knees. So far running hasn't at all. On a bike I have to pop my knees constantly. 7804. arkymalarky - 10/3/2012 8:14:41 PM I like walking, but not when I call it exercise. I hate it on the treadmill. 7805. thoughtful - 10/5/2012 5:02:21 AM Treadmills are boring as all get out...but walking outside is great...I listen to npr pod casts and i'm happy. Prevention mag was talking about walking poles that are supposed to help burn more calories...was debating about trying them.
Biking seems to only work my quads...and it too is walking, except you have to push something with you when you go up a hill. Easier to just walk....though I used to bike like crazy when a kid. The traffic has ramped up a lot in our area so even walking can be hazardous...biking I'm sure is worse.
Hubby alternates treadmill, recumbant bike and cross trainer at the gym...that seems to keep him happy.
Each to his/her own. 7806. concerned - 10/11/2012 2:01:24 AM
Obama Administration Dooms Seniors To The Ravages Of Aging
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Astoundingly, doctors will be paid less to treat a senior than to treat someone on Medicaid, and only about one-third of what a doctor will be paid to treat a patient with private insurance.
On July 13, 2011, Richard Foster, chief actuary for Medicare, warned Congress that seniors will have difficulty finding doctors and hospitals to accept Medicare. Doctors who do continue to take it will not want to spend time doing procedures such as knee replacements when the pay is so low. Yet the law bars them from providing care their patients need for an extra fee. You're trapped.
President Obama seems to think too many seniors are getting these procedures. At a town hall debate in 2009, he told a woman "maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller."
Why? Especially coming from this smug ignor-anus.
Science proves the president is wrong. Knee replacements, for example, not only relieve pain but also save lives. Seniors with severe osteoarthritis who opt for knee replacement are less apt to succumb to heart failure and have a 50% higher chance of being alive five years later than arthritic seniors who don't undergo the procedure, according to peer-reviewed scientific research.
Yet Foster warned Congress that 15% of hospitals may stop treating seniors once the Obama-Care cuts go into effect. The rest will have to lower the standard of care. Hospitals will have $247 billion less over the next decade to care for the same number of seniors as if the health law had not been enacted.
That's Democrats for you: throwing old people under the bus by withholding health care while accusing others of the same. Hypocrisy and penny pinching mean spiritedness all in one vile Left Wing package.
7807. judithathome - 10/11/2012 11:41:33 PM Oh, I guess Romney/Ryan have better plans...much quicker deaths when old people can't afford to BUY insurance. 7808. concerned - 10/12/2012 12:18:16 AM Of course they do. What you are not getting is that the 0bama plan is much worse than what we have now (the point of the article) and the Romney plan basically *is* what we have now. 7809. concerned - 10/12/2012 5:25:50 AM Actually , that's not totally correct. But consider this. The Republicans have not put up just anybody for president. They have put up Mitt Romney, the guy Democrats have claimed millions of times they have modeled 0bamacare after.
So, the question is: are you totally locked into the 2009 position when 0bamacare was first proposed, blindly considering any deviation short of proven disaster, or are you willing to evolve to something more suited to the actual US's healthcare needs orchestrated by the person who had the smarts and creativity in the first place to create the plan that 0bamacare aped? 7810. concerned - 10/12/2012 5:27:43 AM erratum corrected:
Actually , that's not totally correct. But consider this. The Republicans have not put up just anybody for president. They have put up Mitt Romney, the guy Democrats have claimed millions of times they have modeled 0bamacare after.
So, the question is: are you totally locked into the 2009 position when 0bamacare was first proposed, blindly refusing to consider any deviation except in the eventuality 0bamacare turns out to be a proven disaster, or are you willing to evolve to something more suited to the actual US's healthcare needs orchestrated by the person who had the smarts and creativity in the first place to create the plan that 0bamacare aped? 7811. concerned - 10/17/2012 1:27:02 AM I finally am just about over a bronchial infection that I had for at least a couple months, if not longer. What a pain it was, a lack of energy and hacking up phlegm all the time, plus feeling nauseous if I ran too hard, and my recovery was probably the slowest ever in my life. I guess one should expect things like that once one hits his or her upper 50's. Also, I got my first flu shot outside a doctor's office. Figure I've been sick enough this year already. 7812. arkymalarky - 10/17/2012 2:42:50 AM We had flu shots at work today. I got the flu Friday. 7813. judithathome - 10/18/2012 8:55:11 PM Romney's plan was successful in Mass because the government subsidised it. He set it up so governement funds paid for most of it.
7814. alistairconnor - 10/20/2012 4:08:10 PM 
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