The casts are off!
Here's a picture of my mum having her cast removed :
I've now got a 5-6 hour bike ride ahea of me; I suspect it's going to take me half a week to recover, catch up and tell the cats that I've missed them, so I hope to start having all the cobwebs removed and things rolling against by Thursday!
Thank you all for your kind words and patience - I've bought mum a number of motion-activated LED nightlights, so there will be NO falling down the stairs again!
<3 you all.