Quote Originally Posted by Bike Chick View Post
My point in sharing all this is that I want each and every one of you to keep moving. It's been heartbreaking to watch my mother lose her ability to walk and with it her quality of life because of her inactivity. Every time I drive home from visiting her, I try to figure out what I can do to keep from ending up in the same situation and remind myself that I need to keep moving. I'm very sad and frustrated by the whole situation but don't know what, if anything else, can be done for her.
Boy, did you hit a nerve with me. I feel for you & I totally understand. My family is going though the exact same thing with my Dad. He has moderate Alzheimer's and that makes trying to get him to get up and move even more difficult. He can no longer understand, or care, that sitting all day is the reason he has difficulty moving. The toll it is taking on my Mom is just heartbreaking.
Just this past week I have spent hours on the phone calling different agencies to try to find some sort help that can do in-home exercising. I think I finally found what we are looking for, and now we have to go over their finances to see what they can afford. Thank god my folks are pretty well set money wise, because their 2 different insurance plans and the VA (Dad's a vet) have been worthless.
The VA has been a bureaucratic circus and the insurance is happy to pay for endless doctor's visits, MRI's, pills, walkers, wheelchairs etc. but refuses to pay for a couple of PT sessions a week which would actually make a difference in my Dad's life.

I say the exact same thing to myself - get up and move! I don't want to do to my daughter's what I going though now.