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WTH Part Two: Chapter 14: August 9, 1984 5/22 (23%) 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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(“I believe it can be said that they have,” I told her. I said I hope they continue, that I want her home with me. Her left hand bothered her a lot, and I massaged it. Her arms and hands kept moving.

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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.

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(I stayed with her until after 7:30. “You’d better get out of here,” Jane said, meaning that the longer I stayed, the longer she’d keep up her motions. I was only concerned that she not overdo it, and have sore muscles later. I told her often how great it was to see her move, and that her motions only meant that her body was more than willing to cooperate if allowed to. I do think she has either learned that by now, or is on the way. What counts is keeping it up, without trying too hard, and letting the body do its thing.

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