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(At lunch time I told her I wanted her to have a session today if at all possible, by way of encouraging her new course. After a very light lunch, Darvoset, and so forth, I read her yesterday’s session and poetry. She was all ready to try for a session, but I didn’t push for it yet. I read her the short session for August 7, in which Seth had said that her physical improvements have already begun.
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(Jane said she wanted to try for the session. Her voice was somewhat distressed, and with many pauses, but okay all in all. Eyes closed often.)
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(“All right. Thank you.”
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(I read the session to Jane. I called it excellent. The key, I said, was the reference to her understanding physical motion. I mentioned the joy Seth referred to, and Jane said she felt it, even as she cried while I helped her move her arms. I gave her eye drops and turned up the TV after she’d gone through various additional motions. I told her I wanted her home — that all of the rooms in the house were waiting for her.
(Jane’s motions, in the legs especially, were quite startling as I started massaging them with Oil of Olay preparatory to turning her on her side. To my surprise I discovered that as I massaged those tendons underneath the knee, her foot began to move back and forth an inch — something she hasn’t been able to do for months, at least, and proof that the left knee joint wasn’t frozen. I congratulated her. It was also easier doing her arms and hands and other parts of her body after I turned her. And the turning itself went very easily indeed — she didn’t cry at all, and seemed to be at some sort of peace. I told her she’d done well.
(In fact, she continued her motions without my asking her too. Supper didn’t work out, though — after taking a half cup of soup she began to throw up, and lost it all. This upset me, yet Jane didn’t feel bad about it, and I curbed my disappointment.
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