Tracy (as told by Dora)

A few of you have been asking me about Tracy ...... I only have these pics of her at work .... and have attached a recent one taken in Dec 2006.
Tracy's story ... she got married to a guy called Lucas who was a con master !! Things were very up and down and not going good between them, they had gone down to Cape Town where they got married. Then one day she phoned me to say he was beating her and I told her to come back to JHB. She did and found a flat near me in Yeoville and was just starting to get her life back together when he found her and she let him back into her life. A few days later she was in hospital, the doctors were not sure what was wrong with her, she couldn't swallow anything and was in a bad way. They finally realised that she had been poisoned with ' Thallium' which is odourless, colourless, tasteless etc and was apparently use in the world war. Lucas was working at some chemical plant at the time where they had to wear protective clothing etc so it looked very suspicious..... He pretended to be ill as well but the doctors sent him home. If I remember correctly she was in a coma type state and when she was awake couldn't talk ..... she was like that for a long time and couldn't move either. The accusations were thrown at Lucas and he ended up disappearing, the police couldn't really prove anything and to be honest I don't know how hard they tried. It was one of the hardest things to see my friend in such a state, I used to go every week with her Brother Kenny to see her in the hospital..... it was a very long time till we saw some improvement. She got chicken pox and all of a sudden got her voice back and could communicate with us again.
She has been living in homes ever since this happened as she is in a wheelchair and unfortunately her Mum and Gran have passed away. Her brother Kenny is now also living in the UK and is still looking after her as best he can, my Mum goes to visit her once a month. as she doesn't get many visitors. So if anyone can go see her it would be lovely for.
This all happened about 12/13 years ago .....