Paralysed by Fear? ; After the 'Accident' That Broke Her Rib, Leslie Ash Faced Temporary Paralysis. Six Weeks Later, She's Still in Hospital. Now Friends Are Asking If She'll Ever Recover While She Stays in the Shadow of Husband Lee Chapman

Daily Mail › June 14, 2004

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SHE can still barely walk, and not without considerable pain. But at least the feeling has now returned to her legs. For a time, she was almost completely paralysed from the waist down - the only movement she had was in her toes.

Even so, it will be weeks, possibly months, before Leslie Ash will be well enough to leave London's Wellington Hospital. Friends say that she has never 'been more isolated, lonely or down'.

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Paralysed by Fear? ; After the 'Accident' That Broke Her Rib, Leslie Ash Faced Temporary Paralysis. Six Weeks Later, She's Still in Hospital. Now Friends Are Asking If She'll Ever Recover While She Stays in the Shadow of Husband Lee Chapman

'Normally she is full of life, but she seems much, much lower at the moment, and it's not just because she is ill,' said one.

Miss Ash, 44, is recovering from the ravages of a bacterial infection that attacked her nervous system after she was treated for a punctured lung and cracked rib back in April. Those are the bare medical facts.

But, in the eyes of some at least, the real reason for her sad - some might say tragic - predicament has be...

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