Nigelle de Visme

Same Skirt Different Day Nigelle de Visme

At fifty the author discovered she had osteoporosis so severe she was told she would not walk again. The arrival of a Chinese physiotherapist from Hong Kong to a practice at the bottom of her street - in Australia, a Big Country - seemed a miracle. Her full story is told in The Tiger and the Taxi Driver. At sixty-eight, and walking well, she decides to walk the Camino. Will my feet carry me? she asks of him. Are you still overweight? he responds. Yep! she says. Best thing you can do for your feet then, osteoporosis responds to weight-bearing! And so she walked ...