"So everything's holding together really well so far, and - you haven't had any trouble with walking? Walking around has been fine?" asks Ji-woo, in accented, but intelligible, English. She's touching the small of her patient's back and inspecting its insides with her power.
(It hurts, of course, but the pain is by now an old, steady companion. If anything, it drowns out the feeling of incompatibility for guiding. Though, Ji-woo's used to much worse with that, too. She's touched a lot of espers.)