How we met: ‘I was really lonely, very unhappy. He arrived and everything just changed’

Pat, 72, and Donald Law, 63, met at a fracture clinic, after she broke her elbow. They have now been married 40 yearsIt was Pat’s broken elbow that first attracted Donald’s attention. He was a fourth-year medical student in Birmingham when Pat came to the fracture clinic. “Most of the patients who were coming through at that time of year were old ladies who had fallen over and broken their wrists on an icy pavement,” says Donald. “When Pat turned up with something a