Virtual reality goggles helped me on the path to physical recovery

‘How was I to explain to my husband, over the phone, the profound hope that has just descended on me?’ Photograph: Paul Stuart/The Observer

If you had asked me a month or two ago if I had ever had a spatial immersive experience, or what the chances were that at the age of 60, I would become an early adopter of Apple Vision Pro virtual reality goggles, I would have said it was about as likely as a tech giant from Silicon Valley being appointed to “disrupt” the US federal government.

Let me explain the unlikely series of events that led me to the latest in technology.