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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.
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(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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(4:54 PM. Jane was hot and sweaty. Seth didn’t return. The supper tray came in a few minutes. I suspected she’d cut the session short because of the hour, our schedule, etc. She did well when I turned her on her left side, then massaged Oil of Olay into her feet, legs, arms and hands and neck. Jane ate well again at supper time. I slept from 5:15 to 5:45. The covered supper tray kept the food nicely warm.
(I said the prayer at 7:50 then left. Jane didn’t call. She seldom does any more. It doesn’t seem to work out: staff is too busy.)