More Movement

it was several weeks since I discovered the ability to move my left leg toward the center. For that period it seemed that the one muscle on the left leg was the only one in which I had any movement. Suddenly I found a number is muscles had movements which started off as almost imaginary and gradually gained reality at least under the zero gravity conditions of the hot tub.
   I discovered the ability to  move my right leg both in (toward the center) and out. I discovered that the left leg had some ability to move out as well as in.  By holding my knees in a manner where the leg could swing freely, I found I could swing my feet out and, more recently I discovered the ability to swing the feet in as well. 

So far almost all of this movement is in the zero gravity environment of the hot tub or a pool. The movements have little power and, with a few exceptions such as the inward movement of the left leg, little ability to work in a full gravity environment. Still each day, all of the movements get a little stronger and more effective. It is way too early to tell where all of this will lead.

I know that I am very, very lucky. Few people with spinal cord injury have significant recovery of function. I am working hard ot see what I can do with this opportunity.

Movement

I was sitting in the hot time in February when I noticed something very interesting. I imagine that it was possible to move my left leg just a little bit to the left. The movement might have been a millimeter, certainly no more, and was only possible in the zero gravity environment provided by the hot tub. However, when you have a spinal cord injury and have had no movement in your legs since the accident any movement is a very big deal.

For some time since the accident I had been gaining feeling in my left thigh. Most of the feelings were feelings of pain but feeling is feeling and might be a sign of something going on. I have since regained some feeling in my right thigh as well, less painful than that of the last but still painful.

Movement is something else and indicates the possibility that my legs might become something more than useless appendages. Over the next several weeks the movement in my left leg grew from a millimeter or so to several inches. As the muscle became stronger I was even able to move the leg outside of the hot tub as long as there was no weight on the parts being  moved.