Does Faith/Religion Divide Us Or Pull Us Together? With The Prosthetic Pastor, Ross Dilnot | #012 | The Afro Ndiritu Podcast
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In this week's podcast, I interview The Prosthetic Pastor, Ross Dilnot.

On Friday, 8 April 2016 his life was dramatically changed when he had an accident on my trike in north Milton Keynes. His injuries were so severe that Thames Valley Air Ambulance were called in to provide the expertise, the medication he required and the speed of transportation, in order to get me to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

It became apparent at the scene of the incident that he may lose my right leg, such was the severity of the injury he had sustained - not to mention losing a lot of blood at the scene and coming close to not making it to the hospital. 

However, the surgeons at the John Radcliffe managed to rebuild my shattered leg in a long operation later that day. But the next day he was awoken to be told he had entered multi-organ failure, as the rebuilt leg was infected and was poisoning his body. They needed to remove his leg, through the knee, in order to save my life. 

That afternoon he awoke as an amputee. The following Tuesday he underwent a third operation to remove more of his leg, becoming an above-knee amputee, to prepare me for a prosthetic limb.

Three weeks in hospital and months of recovery through physiotherapy, adaptions to the house, and learning to use mobility equipment, gave him time to reflect on what had happened. 

It also gave me time to realise the importance and value of our emergency services, NHS and the Thames Valley Air Ambulance. So, Ross decided he wanted to give something back, and in 2017 he trained as a promotional speaker for Thames Valley Air Ambulance.

This extract is taken from baptist.org and to read the rest of this bio head over to https://www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/550450/How_I_went.aspx

I am super fascinated by his opinion and view as I believe we all have to believe in something bigger than us, don't we?

We discuss an array of topics such as:

Is faith important in today's society and what roll does it play?

Why family breakdown puts communities in disarray?

What does masculinity mean?

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