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Human beings, and all creatures for that matter, have a strong inner impetus leading to action and expression. If anything impedes this natural smoothness and coordination (pause), then all aspects of expression are in one way or another impeded. The cells and organs and muscles and bones all grow by expressing the natural, innate expression characteristic of their kinds. There is a spontaneous order that directs their motions and leads them ever onward to further expression and fulfillment.
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(I was already thinking that we didn’t want to move in any direction until the insurance matter was cleared up, lest it appear that we were running scared. If we moved now, I thought, we might end up stuck with a bill for $50,000, if the insurance refused to cover it under our old setup. I knew I’d be calling Pete first thing Monday to tell him about this. I also knew there were few private rooms in the Infirmary, and that if we lost our privacy it would interfere greatly with our work together—and that the creative work is as much a part of therapy as anything else. Why did this have to happen now? I wondered as I hung up, just when it seems we might get somewhere. But actually, this latest twist was a result of our trying to get somewhere, and might actually work to our benefit with the insurance company, once they were told that my wife couldn’t be moved. That was the message I want to get across to them, with Pete’s help.
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(I did get in a 15-minute nap. Jane ate well. After we’d read our prayer together I saw to it that she had her call button laying across her belly so she could use it. She’d pressed it once last night, she said, when she needed something done about the catheter. She uses it as a matter of routine now—quite an advancement, I said.
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