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(4:05 More, stronger motions, head and chest sideways, left foot lifting up highest at the ankle that its done so far. Then Jane actually lifted the whole foot clear of the bed as it kept flexing. The knee didn’t open more, though. Breathing hard. The effort of the new motion showed in her hip and thigh and belly, tensing all of those muscles. When she rested, Jane said the foot “levitated.”
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(4:30. Suddenly Jane began to lift her entire left leg again—an inch—then two inches—off the mattress. Her belly was tense with the effort. “Safe, safe, safe,” she kept repeating to herself. Then she raised the foot three inches off the bed, flexing the foot at the same time at the ankle. Then even a bit more, breathing loudly, head going back and forth against the pillow.
(4:33. Foot down at last. She’d kept it in the air for at least three minutes. I told her. Terrific, her best yet by far. Then the foot began flexing again. It went back up in the air a good amount. “Safe. safe. safe,” Jane cried out. The whole leg moved up and down, though the knee didn’t flex.
(4:35. Rest. “Oh, that was weird, Bob,” she said. “The foot was under its own impetus, and it tried to straighten the knee, and then I could feel it in the right foot. What was I trying to do, Bob?”
(I said I thought she was preparing to flex the left leg at the knee by getting used to moving it off the bed at the foot, first. “I don’t get the feeling that I’m done exercising yet today, though,” Jane said.
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