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WTH Part Two: Chapter 14: August 9, 1984 3/22 (14%) massaged motions overdo Darvoset crying
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 14: Nirvana, Right is Might, Onward Christian Soldiers, and the Human Body as a Planet Worth Saving
– August 9, 1984 3:58 P.M. Thursday

(Jane didn’t call last night. I got there a few minutes early; she’d just been turned by Patty and was hurting a lot. However, she’d had a good night and morning, and had eaten some breakfast. I massaged under her left knee when she asked me to, almost at once, and was pleased to see the motion in her leg, and head and shoulders, return once again. She said she’d reassured herself through the night and morning that it was okay to move, that she trusted her body, and had had some movements.

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(3:15. Jane felt panicky again, and we talked. She wasn’t sure of the cause. I thought her fear of motion was involved, as well as old family stuff, and she agreed. Half crying, she began more motions with her arms and hands. I rubbed her legs a bit and got more responses, but tried not to overdo it.

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(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.

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