Kelly Davis

Lost

Just over 3 years ago now, my ex husband, Miroslav John Patcha (Miro), died alone in a hospital bed in Cape Town, South Africa. Riddled with tuberculosis (TB), cancer and possibly HIV, he had been living on the streets in a township just north of Cape Town when he was arrested for drug possession. This was not for the first time, but became his last when he contracted TB in the unsanitary and inhumane conditions of the prison he was interned in, released to his parents with the knowledge he was dying.