12-Feb-09, Report from Teja Gaurangi Mataji

[Shabdahari Das]

12-Feb-09, Report from Teja Gaurangi Mataji

Today, while taking breakfast and lunch, Guru Maharaja was eating 90% by
himself. He was using his right hand much more than before. One mataji sent
him a special eating spoons from USA, which are flexibile and patients can
bend them while eating. It's helping him a lot to do the eating by himself.

Just now I've spoken with Devaki Mataji, a senior devotee and disciple of
Srila Prabhavisnu Swami, who was working as a physiotherapist in Germany and
has an experience with the patients in a condition as Guru Maharaja is now.
She is now working in a team with Guru Maharaja's physiotherapist and is
giving him some inputs. They have made a bit of a change in the treatment
plan. Specifically she added some exercises in the lower position, like
positions on the knees and on the hands and knees, that should be developed
before exercises for walking. According to Devaki Mataji that's very
important for getting stability and balance before going to walking
exercises. She has started to train few of the Guru Maharaja's servants to
do a physiotherapy with Guru Maharaja (some basic things). Also, she
explained them they should let and encourage Guru Maharaja to do more of a
daily movements by himself, like eating, standing, turning, etc. In one
sense, their service to Guru Maharaja now is not to serve him, she said
jokingly to them. Because of her input, Guru Maharaja today started to eat
by himself and to use the right hand, which is much more difficult for him
to use than the left hand.

The other day when Guru Maharaj was talking to doctor Syam Lal Prabhu he
said that sometimes he feels strange sensations in the right hand and leg.
Syam Lal Prabhu said it's a good sign, that means the nerves are awakening,
and that he could feel sometimes warm and sometimes cold and that's normal.

These days some of Srila Prabhupada's disciples came to visit Guru Maharaja:
Srila Devamrta Swami, Srila Sivarama Swami, Srila Kesava Bharati Swami and
Krtu Prabhu.

Your servant,

Teja Gaurangi dd