Pieces of an air conditioner, the skeleton of a jukebox, molten bed frames, Christmas ornaments jutted from the ground.

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The room is cool and dim, with photographs in frames on both sides of the bed.

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The former sales consultant spent the next four months in a bed at Cardiff's Rookwood Hospital, graduating to physiotherapy and then walking frames.

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