FOR eight long years his life has been a tale of torture. The pills he takes are his only defence against the pain, after a strain of flesh-eating bacteria devoured a part of his body.
Aubrey September (48) shuffles heavily-limbed through his house in the oppressive heat of Upington in the Northern Cape. Bone-weary exhaustion pulls at the corners of his mouth and there are deep lines around his eyes.
There are times he feels so sick and weak he wants to end it all, he says. But he has children and it’s for their sake he’s holding on.
The dead tissue surgically removed from Aubrey eight years ago was caused by a bacterial infection called necrotising fasciitis.
