Week 6 Begins

We were out in SUPER fast time today - 10:00. There was a visiting physician from Lithuania with her interpreter which was very interesting. Gracie very quiet today - she ended up staying home afterwards with a headache and sore throat.

Well Grace continues to improve in her range in two of her four measurements. She seems to be stuck at -10 R1 and -5 R2 when taken with her knee extended. To address that Mary has instructed me to put a knee immobilizer on her at night. Every other nite if she has trouble sleeping.

So far she has gained 15 degrees in all four measurements. I was questioned as to whether or not we had been doing our exercises - we only missed two and that doesnt count the extra time we tagged onto most of the exercises - because she went down .5 centimeters on all her girth measurements. Mary thought it must be the measuring tape as it is highly unusual to lose the same amount in all measurements.

Mary thought her feet hurting her was probably due to being on them too much while cleaning up. I agree. But Mary didnt like something she saw when seh was walking without the casts. This was corrected in today's casting apparently. Her arm was up at the time and now its down again.

Exercises for the week: continue practice walking, standing on left leg do 10 leg lifts of the right leg onto my knee (I'm sitting on the ground), and standing on left leg with right leg on my knee do "up and back" exercises.

I fit in three sessions today. Gracie didnt realize this so went ahead. Plus did ten extra minutes by tagging on 5 minutes to two of the sessions.

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