KEEP MOVING SURVIVORS!!

Just read in today's paper an article already mentioned here, describing how regular daily exercise has proven immesely beneficial to cancer survivors. For those of you who are new here, I am an almost 10 year survivor of stage 3 rectal cancer. I had a tough year of presurgical treatment, surgery, then follow-up chemotherapy. My regular running regimen went way down, but I hung on and did something every day, even walking laps of my yard on some of my weakest days. The movement helped me sleep at night and feel like I was doing something good for myself, something apart from my fight with cancer. As I recovered I reveled in my ability to run again and still do almost every day! We can't all run 10 miles or bike 100 or swim 3, but we can all do something, and we can all do quite a bit more than we think! Our bodies are amazing...allow yours to grow into the wonder that it is...even if it means a 10 minute walk after dinner...that can stretch to 15 in another week...and 20 the next. Ride your bike for 20 minutes on the weekend, play 9 holes of golf and walk with a pull cart...allow your body to accomplish things and it will reward you in return. My brother, who is fighting prostate cancer, visited for the weekend and walked every morning for an hour...staying strong for his continued fight. Live strong survivors...we have miles and miles and miles and miles to go before we sleep!!