Timeline of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami's Life - 2001-2010

8th Dec 2008 Morning Shift 6am - 12noon
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At 6.30am when i went into the ICU, Bhadra balaram Prabhu was arranging all deities pictures behind GM's bed. Then he told me to hold the Their Lordship Sri Radha Madhava picture infront of GM. GM told us to start the mangala arati prayers. We did full mangala arati program together. Soon after the morning program he had his fruit. Then he told me he wanted to take rest till 9.30am, have his breakfast and go for physiotherapy. Today at 10.30am GM had an appointment to go to physiotherapy department.All this while the therapy was done in the ICU but today is the first day GM will be taken to the physiotherapy department. The therapist suppose to make him to stand. So GM was eager to be there on time.

When i went in again into the ICU at 9.30am GM was still sleeping soundly. I tried many times to wake him up but i failed. I thought to let him sleep but at the same time i do not want him to be late for the physiotherapy department. I know he is very eager to go there and try to stand. So,i woke him up anyway. While having breakfast GM told Dr.Siromani to check whether the appointment to go to physiotherapy department is still as per schedule. Unfortunately due to some unexpected events the appointment was delayed to 2pm.

Meanwhile we did facial therapy,speech therapy and physiotherapy for GM inside the ICU itself. After finish doing all these therapies, we made him to sit on the edge of his bed with his legs dangling down and both hands holding the table infront of him. This exercise is done mainly to help strengthen GM's back. With so much effort GM managed to sit and hold the table without any support for 15 minutes.

At 1.15pm we fed lunch to GM. At 2.15pm we took GM to the physiotheraphy department by wheelchair. This physiotherapy department is located in another building across the road which is connected with a bridge. Since GM's immune system is down and we have to take GM out of the ICU area we put a face mask for GM.

On the first day of this physiotherapy session GM was made to stand,holding
on to a set of parallel bars on either side of him. He stood for about 20 minutes in two sessions with the support of four therapists. At one point GM asked Mr.Nirmal Narayan(one of the therapist),"I want to walk,baby step." Mr.Nirmal Narayan said,"Step by step swamiji.First you have to stand steady.Then we go for baby step." This scene appeared to be like how a mother teaches her baby to walk. Then GM was taken to another corner and was given a ball to him to pass from one hand to another hand followed by picking up and dropping small metal bars.

At 4pm GM was brought back to the ICU. One of the therapist followed us to the ICU and continued to give few other exercises for GM. GM was seen very exhausted and we made him to take rest. After having some buttermilk as a refreshment he took one and half hour rest.

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