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  1. Penny Kingma

    Pilgrims with Multiple Sclerosis on the Camino

    Thank you Pilgrim
  2. Penny Kingma

    Pilgrims with Multiple Sclerosis on the Camino

    I'm walking the Portuguese Central. Then I hope to travel to the northern transitioning into the primitive. Finishing in Finisterre and Muxia around July 7th. I've given myself 3 months to accomplish it. These are my hopes and dreams ... my reality will be that of my body's choosing.
  3. Penny Kingma

    Pilgrims with Multiple Sclerosis on the Camino

    Hi Ladydigs In 2015 I was wrongly diagnosed with M.S. I walked the full Francis in 2016. After I got home I was correctly diagnosed with 4 Lyme diseases. I explain this as symptoms you describe are very simular and i have many many more. its very important to listen to your body. Let it dictate...
  4. Penny Kingma

    Minor Glitch Hopefully - Asking for Prayers

    Sending prayers your way ❤️
  5. Penny Kingma

    Tick-borne disease update

    I have Lyme disease as well as a co Lyme disease Babasia and 4 other co Lyme diseases. There is so much mis information out there....and sadly even from government agencies and websites. So much denial One major truth is Lyme can be contracted within 15 minutes of a tick attaching itself ...
  6. Penny Kingma

    Pilgrims with Multiple Sclerosis on the Camino

    Hello Turkeyneck I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in June 2015. I decided to walk the Camino from SJDP to Santiago from May 28th 2016. I did so completing in its entirety in 35 days. We sound very familiar in personalities. I’m a happily married mother of 5 and grandmother of 6. I...
  7. Penny Kingma

    New Knees - User Experiences Please

    On a different topic Robo....I feel as though I met and spoke with the women in your profile picture while on my 2016. She was having a great deal of leg discomfort.....not sure ....her picture looks so familiar
  8. Penny Kingma

    Medical Alert Bracelet

    Are they recognized worldwide? Also with language barriers? I also have a life threatening allergy to penicillin and high sensitivity to sulpha. These concerns crossed my mind when I walked alone in 2016
  9. Penny Kingma

    Walking after knee surgery?

    Thank you Phil You're very sweet....I'd love to meet again on the Camino
  10. Penny Kingma

    Walking after knee surgery?

    Hi Oxford girl I’ve always been active all my life. This has been the worst. Because of so many joints effected it prevents the activity I want. A constant battle of what needs to be rested and what needs to be worked. Withe the labral tears or shredding to both hips even upper body workouts...
  11. Penny Kingma

    Walking after knee surgery?

    Hi everyone Well I had my Right knee replaced February 16th, My right hip on July 12th...and I’ve just been put on the short surgical waiting list for the left knee before Christmas. I’m hoping to finish with the left hip in February/ March 2019. .....still holding on to my dream to...
  12. Penny Kingma

    Tick-borne disease update

    Just a little side note. I also have Lyme disease and a co Lyme disease called Babasia. YOU DO NOT NECESSARILY GET A RASH OR A BULLSEYE...Ive never had either. I walked the Camino from sjdp to Santiago in 2016. I did not get it on the Camino. I’ve had a total of 9 ticks on me in my...
  13. Penny Kingma

    Walking after knee surgery?

    I walked from SJDP to Santiago in 2016 with M.S. an d two wonky knees. A week after returning home I dislocated my hip waterskiing. When I let go of the rope the left hip snapped back in so violently it destroyed both hips. The having to wait and convince a surgeon to do replacements at 53...
  14. Penny Kingma

    Tick-borne disease update

    Me too !!
  15. Penny Kingma

    Tick-borne disease update

    Tick diseases occur everywhere. I walked the Camino Francis last summer with Multiple Sklerosis. I recently had a DNA test due to symptoms that just don't fit....I have a tick born disease called Babesia...I contracted it here at home in Ontario Canada. ???? If it's the Babesia and not...
  16. Penny Kingma

    Devastated

    I was wondering how your feeling as well...sending warm healing hugs
  17. Penny Kingma

    Plantar Faciitis Treatments - Pre Camino

    I tried it for severe p.f. Before our trip to Iceland....it didn't help.

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