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(3:40. Jane began making throaty noises and lifting her left leg up and flexing the foot—2” off the mattress. Her right foot started moving also. Then her head and shoulders began moving against the pillow and mattress. “Is the door closed?”
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(3:53. Groaning rapidly, Jane began lifting left leg high up. The right foot moved and she began thrashing her body from side to side. Good motions.
(3:57. More leg motions up in the air. “Come on, sweet body,” she chanted softly. “Higher and higher.... When my eyes are closed it feels like that left knee is way up in the air, and I can feel the impetus in the right leg to move. It does a little—but I don’t want to hurt the break or anything.”
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(4:08. Suddenly her left leg lifted clear of the bed, and Jane cried out and made other noises as the ankle began rotating again, quite flexibly. It seems the folded pillow under her left leg acts as a handy fulcrum for leg movements, offering her some support and confidence when she starts moving. But when she lifts her foot off the bed, the leg is clear of the pillow support.
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(4:30. After a cigarette Jane’s left foot began moving quite freely at the ankle in a new way. Then head and shoulders again, and more noises and heavy breathing. Left leg up, torso side to side—almost violent motions for my wife—excellent signs. Jane felt motions in her hips and right leg and stomach—I could see them. Her right leg, which hadn’t moved much, felt “hotter than hell inside.” Increased internal muscular activity and circulation, I said. “Now I’ve got that electric feeling in my toes—the one on my right foot next to the little toe prickles like crazy.” Another good sign.
(4:36. “I don’t know what to do. I feel Seth around but every time I think of having a session I start doing something with motion....” And even as she spoke her left leg lifted up. I told her the motion was to come first, since that’s what the sessions were supposed to help her achieve.
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(“I was going to ask him about the right leg,” I said, “but I guess he’s already answered the question.”
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(But she did quite well when I turned her, and I massaged Oil of Olay into her hands and feet, legs and arms. The tray came [via Susie] even before I took my nap from 5:05 to 5:35. It was easy to put Jane back on her back. Once again she ate well—a most encouraging sign, because of the nourishment it bespoke. And I felt that now familiar but never-taken-for-granted hope and enthusiasm as I walked down the hall after leaving her at 7:05 PM. I’d read the prayer with her five minutes earlier.)