THE POWER OF WILL
MBA: Hi, Roger. It’s a pleasure to meet you. I suppose we should start at the beginning, tell us about the accident back in 2000?
RW: I still remember the date - December 11th, 2000. It was a motorbike accident. Honestly, it was my own fault, being a bit of an idiot with mates. One of them was egging me on to do a mono (wheelie). Stupidly I did, and I completely flipped the bike and it came down on my foot and leg. I was pretty idiotic, I don’t want to try and hide that. The accident pretty much took the foot off there and then - it was just hanging off from the bone by a bit of flesh. There was a doctor in Sydney who operated to save it, Dr Ian Harris. Over the next four years I had complications and many operations to try and save the foot. Coincidentally, 13 years to the day after the accident, he was the same doctor who operated to remove the leg.
MBA: So tell me a bit about what your life was like before the accident?
Well, we were fairly new to Australia. I met my partner, Emily, in England, but she’s originally from New Zealand. We arrived in Australia in 1995, and initially I struggled to make friends. It’s different in
