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Show 13 Parti The Community Hospital 1991-1993 Physical Therapy He is coming through my door once again, for the second time today, smiling. I am not sure just why he is smiling. "I get to have two workouts in one day!" he is saying, pulling back my sheets. Physical therapy is a challenge for anyone who cannot get out of bed but in my case, it is the physical therapists, not me, who are extraordinarily challenged by the task. They are trying to maintain range of motion in my ever increasingly stiffening legs. He is adjusting the sheets to maintain my modesty during the exercise, then places one of his hands beneath the calf of one of my legs and he cups the heel of that foot in the palm of his other hand. This, of course, will prove inadequate and we both know it but he will at least begin this way as a sign of hope: perhaps this day the medical treatment is finally working. |