Slowly, over the past few years, she has completely lost the ability to walk. Since that first slip and roll on the ankle, the cartilage, ligaments and bone down there in her foot have been crumbling, slow and steady, until finally they were absent from her gait. Admittedly, she could easily have replaced them with marvels of modern medicine, and in fact she walked for a few weeks on that empty bag of muscle (those bones literally just melted away, leaving the remaining structures of the foot relatively intact), but when she finally opened her eyes and let herself limp- it didn’t stop at limping. She fell. And in falling, she realized it was over and that never again would she walk. She stayed stock still.