Re: Day One completed Pravin

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Hi Beth: I am glad you liked your 1st session. I took my rehab in Feb 09

and have continued to go three times a week to maintain the strength in my

muscles. The team recommended that we maintain the muscles since well tuned

muscles use less oxygen and for those of us with PF that means our lungs do not

have to work as hard.As posted in earlier posts I am a firm believer that I am

able to walk, drive, go shopping and do almost all the daily tasks by following

the techniques taught in the rehab class. You will also benefit a great deal if

you keep a positive attitude when the going gets tough and do the best you can

do with the limited resources you have. Also do not be discouraged if you could

not do certain exercise keep trying to stretch it a little further the next

time. Also do not compare yourself with what others can or cannot do but learn

from the ones that can do more than you and see if you can improve your

technique so that you can get more out of your exercise. The most important

lesson to learn is the exercise will keep your living organs ( lungs and heart

in my case) to perform better and compensate for the dead tissue that cannot

perform.

Good luck and keep it up.

Regards

Pravin

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> > I'm home from my first day of pulmonary rehab. Today was primarily

> orientation so the exercise was fairly minimal (23 minutes on the Nu

> Step machine and 15 minutes walking on the track) but there will be more

> tomorrow. There are 9 people in my class right now and 5 of them have

> pulmonary fibrosis of some kind or another so it's great to be with

> others who 'get it'. At the same time there are others in the fitness

> center. Folks preparing for transplant, folks recovering from

> transplant, graduates of the rehab program exercising. While I was using

> the NuStep I was talking to a woman on the next machine. Margaret had a

> double lung transplant in early March of this year, she's doing great

> and looks fabulous!!

> > It's early yet but this seems like a really great program and I'm

> looking forward to the rest of it.

> >

> > PS I've already been labeled by the staff as an 'over achiever'. LOL

> >

> > Beth

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