Jean McDougall was left with a fractured nose, eye socket and spine [CASCADE]Aaron Davis, 18, attacked Mrs McDougall and her husband last October after knocking on the door of their home in Hextable, Kent, and asking for the time.
She cannot remember anything else until she woke up in an ambulance, but doctors said that she had suffered injuries consistent with being repeatedly kicked.
Mrs McDougall said: "I'm still not walking properly and I still have a fracture at the base of my spine. It has made me feel my age.
"I had a walking stick but the attacker smashed it over on my husband's head.
"He still gets terrible headaches from it and the doctors say there is nothing more they can do. He's never got over the attack.
"My clothes had to be cut off me. I got them back a few weeks ago and they were unusable."
Davis stole £60, a necklace and a wallet, which have not been recovered.
Mrs McDougall said: "Now I'm extremely nervous, I have to lock and bolt the doors" [CASCADE]"I went to the attacker's final appearance in court. He never looked at me once."
Davis was identified after he matched the description given by the victim and his DNA was found on the bag he had left at the crime scene.
Detectives investigating the case linked it to an offence in Panters the previous month, in which he attacked and robbed an 81 year-old woman in her home, before setting her shed on fire.
Davis was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on May 6 to 10-and-a-half years in prison.
He had pleaded guilty at a previous court hearing to three counts of GBH with intent, two counts of robbery, burglary of the shed and another burglary at the football pavilion in Hextable Park.
Kent Police Detective Constable Shelley Rainer, who led the investigation, said: "It is a case that has caused immeasurable damage to the victims, their families and the community they live in.
"The victims' courage in supporting the police has led to the successful conviction and prevented other offences in the future."
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