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(Jane dozed a few times while reading yesterday’s session, which she managed to do fairly well. I helped her read it. She also rotated her arms in good style. I told her both her hands looked better than they had yesterday, even, with the skin coloring more normal instead of being so taut and tight. I began doing some mail while she slept briefly after reading the session. “I feel guilty, doing that,” she said.
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(I was shocked—because I discovered a vast amount of tension in her left leg. So much so that it was jammed against her broken right leg, and I had difficulty getting the pillow between her knees before turning her. Her whole leg was tense; I could feel the tension in all the tendons and muscles. I was amazed at the tension in the leg. I couldn’t understand how she could stand that situation, evidently day after day, and not realize what she was doing, what was happening. It must put a terrible strain upon the knee joint, I told her. I began massaging the leg with Oil of Olay and talking to it. It helped, I could tell, but not enough, since by then I had her on her side. I rubbed the lotion into her hands and feet also.
(I found that both her hands showed signs of improvement in feel and motion at the wrists especially, much to my pleasant surprise, so we’re making good progress there. It’s easier now for me to get the oil inside her clenched right hand, and I can feel the fingers move.
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