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(Jane was doing well. She said she had something to show me after lunch. While she ate I read Saul’s letter, and began to laugh. It concerned his low opinion of Steve Blumenthal—to which he’s entitled, I suppose—but Saul himself made a number of inaccurate statements, so the situation appeared to me to be a standoff. After lunch Jane tried to read Saul’s letter, but couldn’t manage it.
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(3:46 PM. “Now I’ll see if I can do some exercises,” Jane said. “So I did that for a good part of the evening—massaged first the right arm, then the left one, after they started to improve.” My first thought had been that the softening in the arms would help relieve the doubled-up fingers of her right hand. The session, then, is one of the major ones, signaling an excellent prognosis for continued improvement. I told Jane, also, that yesterday she had referred to a looser feeling inside her left elbow, a greater softness, so Seth was right: these particular improvements had been in the works, yet triggered by Jane’s suggestions.
(3:55. I rubbed Steve’s Rescue Cream on the knuckles of Jane’s right hand, as I’d begun doing yesterday. We’re using that area as our testing ground.
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(4:00. I trimmed Jane’s fingernails—and discovered to my pleasant surprise that the job was much easier to do than it had been previously. I seemed to be done in a few minutes, whereas I’d hesitated to start it. The extra motion ability already present in Jane’s hands helped considerably, especially with the right hand.
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(4:43. More of the same. Then Jane’s right foot started moving at the toes. “Oh, oh, oh”—good motions of her head and torso, with noises, and feet alternating motions also. “I wasn’t worried about not doing the motions though,” Jane said, “particularly after the arms started doing their thing last night.”
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