Last weekend a volunteer team descended on Arolla to clear out a year's worth of weeds and restore some semblance of order to the garden.
This has been organised by the almoner of my Lodge, who has also invited us to apply for funding to; finish the conservatory, pave part of the garden to allow Jo to access it in her wheelchair and widen the doorway to the kitchen, thus allowing Jo to access it from the conservatory.
In addition he has organised a lawyer to take up our case against the insurance company and is also working on funding to provide Jo with a residential course of intensive neurophysiotherapy in the Wellington hospital in St John's Wood, which has a specialist unit for neuro treatment.
Jo's GP was particularly supportive of this latter move, when we asked him for a referral letter, saying that he, "was really looking forward to it" as he was firmly of the opinion the intensive treatment would help Jo regain her independence.
Jo herself has been suffering muscle spasm in her left shoulder, occasioned by the enforced lack of mobility as the insurance company has left her languishing without physiotherapy of any kind for six months. The pain was so great she had to be coaxed to sit out in the conservatory to watch the garden team but professed that she was glad she did afterwards, the sight of her beloved garden being restored having raised her spirits.
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