Roger Russell

Hard Road Home (SOUTH AFRICA, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of the brutality of cancer in a time when the medical profession in South Africa was itself learning to cope with bigoted attitudes and inadequate surgical skills. The story details dealing with progressive setbacks and evidence of the destruction of faith and dignity. It is the story of my wife's and my battle with the disease. It tells the harsh truth of a family in crisis and assisted dying. It is also the story of my walk after her death through South Africa at a time when the country was learning to deal with a new social reality. The inherent goodness of all sectors of the population of South Africa is clearly shown as is the fine work done by Hospice and the South African Cancer Association. Nothing is hidden and the story joins the events of both journeys with honesty and reflects the human impact of terminal illness on a family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Roger Russell
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230627418
• Artikelnr.: 72532094

Autorenporträt

Born in 1947 in Eldoret, Kenya Roger attended school in Bournemouth, UK and St David's College in Johannesburg, SA.
Roger Russell fell into a long drop toilet when he was three years old, out of a car when he was four. He went on to almost drown himself at six, cut through his left leg when he was seven and crush his right arm when he was nine. By the time he was eleven he had spent over a year in hospital and had been the recipient of many hundreds of stitches. He was banned from playing soccer or rugby and could not run to save his life. He started in the mines at nineteen and lost his finger in an accident before a month had passed. He joined the U/G Rescue team and was gassed, trapped and lost underground within the space of a single year. Roger married in 1968 and is the father of four children by his first wife, Sharon, to whom he was happily married for twenty five years before she died of cancer in 1993. He has since remarried and lives with Cynthia on a 30 foot motor cruiser in Hermitage Marina near St Ives in the UK. They have one child, a boy named Gordon after Roger's father. In 1993, after the death of his wife, Roger walked from Beit Bridge on the Northern border of South Africa to Cape Town, a distance of 2000km. He slept alongside the road and walked alone and un-armed through one of the worst political times the country had ever seen. He saw then and has continued to see immense power in common people. In 1999 he walked right around South Africa to support a much maligned South African Police Services. He was mugged by a squatter camp gang, attacked by a policeman in a remote station in the Transkei and swept away in a flash flood in the Orange Free State. He has seen police barracks that were worse than some prison cells, met and spoken with criminals, saints and politicians. The British media called him a South African hero and Steve Tshwete, the South African Minister of Safety and Security at the time said he was truly a South African patriot. Roger has also walked in America on two occasions, promoting South Africa and cancer awareness to the people of California, Nevada, New Mexico and other states. Roger has written several books all of which he plans to publish with Smashwords in time.