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cindyj

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Re: Wii used to help with balance
« Reply #45 on: January 12, 2009, 02:35:39 pm »
Ok, I'll tackle my teen when he gets home here in the next hour or so...will let you know if I'm successful...

cindy
rt side 1.5 cm - Translab on 11/07/08 Dr. Friedman & Dr. Schwartz of House Ear Institute,
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cindyj

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Re: Wii used to help with balance
« Reply #46 on: January 12, 2009, 03:29:04 pm »
Well, he says that only certain games are "on-line gaming capable" and the Wii Fit is, apparently, not one of them.  Now, if we want to all get a "shoot-em-up" type of game - that will work ::)  Darn, I really need help in not getting hit so much in the soccer game!

Cindy
rt side 1.5 cm - Translab on 11/07/08 Dr. Friedman & Dr. Schwartz of House Ear Institute,
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Re: Wii used to help with balance
« Reply #47 on: January 13, 2009, 05:14:07 pm »
Well, I am glad to hear that about the soccer.  I make myself do it every day, but it is really hard to dodge the darned boots and the dreaded pandas.   I guess we could all meet up for tennis or bowling? 

Has anyone done the advanced step class (under Aerobics)?  It's fun, but it takes awhile to get the hang of the footwork.  At least, it took me awhile... 

Okay, and one last question - is there some trick to the ski board?  I totally bomb at that...

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Re: Wii used to help with balance
« Reply #48 on: March 15, 2009, 09:25:55 am »
I finally got my Wii Fit ...been using it for two weeks and have went from 58 to 40...I am somewhere
between that so happy ...

something that is funny is my right side is stronger as far as balance than left and it is my AN side ... wonder
if that is due to my 20 months of relearning to balance and it has been over worked ...

I have also lost 3 lbs ... only 22 more to go  :D ... the jogging gets to my ankles if I do it it place so I
clear the area put remote in my pocket and run in a circle ... then pause and steady self on chair back and
go again ..slows my time but keeps my ankles happy and I don't fall ... just wobble and pant...

the yoga poses are my least favorite but do them as per doctors orders... what does he know ...I am in
it for the fun...  :) ...

got $40 back from insurance on the purchase because my PCP wrote me out a letter saying that the use
of the system would aide in my recovery ...

I have fired all my ologists and he is treating me for everything and will order my yearly then later every three
year MRIs ... he is prescribing my lyrica and BP meds and stuff for lupus treatment ... only condition is that if
something comes up that he feels he is unable to treat right I will go to a specialist that he finds  or he dumps me ...

we came to this agreement Friday as I sat in his office dressed in pajamas and a robe with my 9 year old also
dressed this way ... we came straight from school and it was PJ's day ... I fell asleep waiting for him as I either
subbed or worked our book fair every day last week and was tired ...when he and my daughter woke me up I
couldn't figure out why he was at school... I couldn't have done a full week of school with out the pain control
I have got from the lyrica

so here's to Wii Fit and good doctors
3mm AN discovered Aug 2004
Translab July 2 ,2007
3.2cm x 2.75cm x 3.3cm @ time of surgery

moe

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Re: Wii used to help with balance
« Reply #49 on: March 15, 2009, 03:21:31 pm »
I love my WII fit. Bought it exactly for that reason- balance issues. I LOVE the way you can tell how balanced (or unbalanced ) you are. I love the yoga, strengthening exercises. Definitely have gotten my money's worth.
Maureen
06/06-Translab 3x2.5 vascular L AN- MAMC,Tacoma WA
Facial nerve cut,reanastomosed.Tarsorrhaphy
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01/08- nerve transposition-(12/7) UW Hospital, Seattle
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11/10/10 BAHA 2/23/11 brow lift/canthoplasty