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(The patch was on Jane’s right elbow again when I got to room 330. She did well this morning in hydro—moving her feet more than usual, she said—and she ate an excellent lunch. We looked forward to seeing Paul O’Neill around 6:00 PM.

(When I gave Jane a cigarette after turning her on her back for the afternoon, she had another instance of reverting to an old, automatic habit. Since she’s been in the hospital she’s always handled cigarettes with her left hand, leaving her right hand lying unused across her belly. If she wants to reverse the ends of a smoke because one is looser than the other, which she often does with Pall Malls, she does so by awkwardly holding the cigarette with her lips while using her left hand to try to turn the cigarette around before I light it. Now today, Jane automatically used her right hand to help her left hand reverse the cigarette—and didn’t realize she’d done so until I pointed it out to her. Truly, the body remembers. It was another fine step along the way, I told her.

(3:10. The time was going fast again. Jane started reading yesterday’s session, but had a lot of trouble—halting, pausing often. Her pace improved a bit as she went along, and it was still better than she used to do, but not as good as recent attempts. I worked with the mail as she kept at it.

(3:30. After she finished the reading, I began reading the old sessions to her—just the Seth material portions. At 3:50 we had a flurry of activity in 330—2 staff people for Jane’s vitals, the TV lady collecting for the week, and a call from maintenance about heat in 330—or the lack of it. The room was cold and damp. Even Jane had been chilly at times. When I’d arrived she had over her the cloth sent her by Reudi Anner’s group from the Seth conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

(Jane was getting more upset—here, she said, she’d had no session, no motions, and Paul was coming at supper time. I resumed reading the sessions at 4:15, and we went through the first of the two books. Then Jane said she felt like having a short session after all.)

(4:40. “It’s me,” Jane said. “Thanks for reading all those sessions. I really try to take them all to heart. Oh—and I did move my feet a little more than usual in hydro—both of them....”

(4:45. Jane began some head and shoulder movements, and her left foot joined in. But she wanted to be turned, and I agreed. Maybe, we thought, we could get supper finished before Paul showed up, if we got started with it a little early. The tray came while I was massaging her with Oil of Olay.