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(After staff had taken her vitals—temperature 96—Jane’s feet started moving. She could feel it in her right leg—she cried out as a muscle spasm ran down the right leg to the toes. She could feel definite changes as the muscles in the doubled-up right leg tried to straighten out, as she put it. Her head and shoulders moved a little.
(4:10. I tried to move her right foot down a bit, to make her more comfortable, but it wouldn’t go. I could feel a lot of resistance, so it’s not ready yet. It must be protective, I said. At the same time, Jane almost cried as the right leg tried to move.
(4:12. Her left foot was up in the air, rotating. Grunts and groans, talking to herself. The right leg moved a little. “The right leg can go too,” she chanted. “It’s all right, it’s all right....”
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(4:18. “I let the right leg out just a tiny bit more. I don’t know whether you can tell, but I did,” Jane said. Her left foot moved quite a bit more, rotating.
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(4:26. Good motions of head and shoulders and left leg lift. “It feels just like satin.” Rest.
(4:29. Jane’s left leg moved back and forth sideways, opening up at the groin. Her right leg suddenly started moving sideways also—but only a little comparatively. Yet the motion was noticeable for the first time—good progress, I told Jane. It didn’t last long, but it’s a start—a very important one with the broken leg.
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(4:38. Jane’s right leg went sideways again a little. Her left leg moved sideways rapidly again. The body is obviously trying itself out—and succeeding.
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(4:45. But I had to take her cigarette away when her hips began moving. Left leg up. “It’s all right,” she said again and again to her right leg as it tried to move also. She cried out. Rest.
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(4:47 PM. A short but quite energetic session. “Gee, that was some workout, I’ll tell you,” Jane said, referring to her exercises preceding the session, and now her left leg went back and forth rapidly, then her head and shoulders lifted repeatedly.
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