FOR Irymple's Lina Natale, spending Christmas at home with her family this year will carry special significance.

Last Christmas, the 59-year-old was in the early stages of a long and painful road to recovery after she was struck by a car on Eleventh Street in Mildura on October 30.

Ms Natale, who was on her way to a cleaning job, was hit by a west-bound car after getting out of her own vehicle b...