Me-Before-You-by-Jojo-Moyes

Ritchie, had remembered my previous posts, and wanted to know how he was
doing.
This all sounds like good news. Is he feeling better?
I typed a quick response:
Maybe. But I’m hoping this trip will really make a difference.
Ritchie responded:
Attagirl! If you’ve got the funds to sort it all out, the sky’s the limit!
Scootagirl wrote:
Make sure you post up some pics of him in the bungee harness. Love the look on guys’ faces when
they’re upside down!
I loved them – these quads and their carers – for their courage and their
generosity and their imaginations. I spent two hours that evening writing down
their suggestions, following their links to related websites they had tried and
tested, even talking to a few in the chat rooms. By the time I left I had a
destination; we would head to California, to The Four Winds Ranch, a specialist
centre which offered experienced help ‘in a way that will make you forget you
ever needed help’, according to its website. The ranch itself, a low-slung timber
building set into a forest clearing near Yosemite, had been set up by a former
stuntman who refused to let his spinal injury limit the things he could do, and the
online visitors book was full of happy and grateful holidaymakers who swore
that he had changed the way they felt about their disability – and themselves. At
least six of the chat-room users had been there, and all said it had turned their
lives around.
It was wheelchair friendly, but with all the facilities you would expect from a
luxury hotel. There were outside sunken baths with discreet hoists, and specialist
masseurs. There was trained medical help on site, and a cinema with spaces for
wheelchairs beside the normal seats. There was an accessible outdoor hot tub
where you could sit and stare up at the stars. We would spend a week there, and
then a few days on the coast at a hotel complex where Will could swim, and get
a good look at the rugged coastline. Best of all, I had found a climax to the
holiday that Will would never forget – a skydive, with the help of parachute