"You've improved! You're walking unaided!"

Johnny smiled. "I still use the stick to go for a walk, but, yes, around the house I don't need it most of the time. I still need Tilly to get up and down the stairs."

"And the arm?"

"No improvement there, I'm afraid. I suspect we left it too late. I still do the exercises every day but it doesn't seem to do anything."

Johnny had obviously resigned himself to being disabled, but Dr Jarman thought he saw a gleam in ...