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(However, this morning, Jane said, Fred was amazed at the way the large ulcer on the outside of her right knee is healing itself. Jane told him she wants her legs to straighten enough so that she can start sitting up. Fred said they had a way to go. In reply she said, “Bob and I massage and exercise them every day.” That was all.
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(Jane ate a good lunch. Afterward three of the staff came in to hoist her further up the bed and change her drawsheet. They had to lift Jane, and this hurt her; she cried. She began to read yesterday’s session while I did mail, and once again she started out holding the papers on the left side with her left hand. Then shortly afterward she also began using her right hand on the right side. She didn’t read well today, though, but got through the session finally.
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(Jane had read my summary of yesterday’s events, holding the pages up with both hands in what already seems like a more normal way for her—as if she’d been doing so all along. She also showed me how she could much more easily turn her head from side to side, and around, than she has been able to. Very good, I told her—another sign. When LuAnn was in she replaced the new nose patch that Georgia had put on to replace the one Phyllis had put on yesterday—the first one had been too big, the second too small, the third one was just right.
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(4:20. She showed me how she could open up her legs more than before, and extend the right one down more. She’d done this in hydro today also. She also noticed the difference in length of her legs, from hip to knee. “I think Fred figured I’d never walk again, so it didn’t matter what happened to the right one after I broke it,” she said. I agreed. She’d never had the leg in a cast or sling, as she had the arm.
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