1 result for (book:tps7 AND heading:"delet session octob 29 1983" AND stemmed:leg)
7/28 (25%)
flexing
sweaty
foot
safe
knee
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(3:48. However, by this time Jane was in the process of straining, grunting and groaning as she moved her entire body to some degree. “Oh, Jesus....” Head and neck, arms and hands, legs and feet all moved in concert. “I don’t know what the hell I was doing, but I used the [right] knee a lot more, I know that....” She was afraid people would start coming in to do her vitals, and see her moving; she feared that once she started a series of movements, she couldn’t cut them off right away if someone entered 330. I thought to hell with those concerns.
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(4:00. Jane began another set of generalized movements of her whole body. She was also noisy about it, telling herself “Shhh.” It was sort of humorous. “I didn’t know what the hell I was doing,” she said again. But it’s safe to say that her right leg is definitely showing signs of moving more. The sponge I place between her legs when she’s on her back keeps slipping loose.
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(4:10. Head and chest side to side. Jane could feel the knee of her right leg moving. “I can do a lot more with that knee.”
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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.
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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.
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