I’ve just spoken to Jane who has summarised her situation with the words “things are difficult, but looking up.”

She’s still a little nauseous, though this seems to be subsiding, with her main inconvenience being the difficulty she’s having moving her lower body out of bed. She’s been seeing the physio though who she really likes and who has been very helpful. The doctor also told me yesterday that he felt her relative immobility was probably normal considering the extent of her fall, and would subside with the swelling.

Medically then, she is recovering largely as expected, though obviously it is enormously frustrating for her to not be up and about.

Robert arrived last night late, and is about to see her this morning, so that will be a great comfort. She will probably be in Morningside for another couple of days – the weekend at least.

As if to remind us of the occasional superfluous errands of medical science, Jane told me that a physician had checked out her heart and declared it to be “perfect”. We could have told him that.