Selene's physiotherapy session begins with a clear goal:
The physiotherapist looks at Selene and says, “We are doing sixteen steps today.
Selene looks at the therapist dully. “It is already an ambitious target compared to where I had been only a few weeks earlier.” She and her therapist got ready to count the day as a success if she reaches it. They started the first part of the session; it was difficult for her. Her muscles protest.
Her balance wavers more than once.
Every step demands concentration.
Yet something feels different today.
Instead of her stopping when she reaches the sixteenth step, Selene finds herself wanting to keep going.
The zeal and determination to fully recover, she can’t fathom.
The progress she has fought so hard for suddenly feels tangible beneath her f
