{"id":49086,"date":"2021-04-01T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T10:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/help-ever-popular-queenie-walk-again-20210331-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:22:59","slug":"help-ever-popular-queenie-walk-again-20210331-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/help-ever-popular-queenie-walk-again-20210331-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Help ever-popular Queenie walk again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_6975399d\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11126\/63af1fd1eadd468b9f476f20742b3f10.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11126\/0496ce3656844fd3beb9cfbe555ad97d.jpeg\" title=\"Queenie Grootboom (left) and Doreen Loubser from Algoa FM.       Photo:ALGOA FM\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Queenie Grootboom (left) and Doreen Loubser from Algoa FM.       Photo:ALGOA FM<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>IT was a shock to many Algoa FM listeners when they heard that their ever-popular radio presenter Queenie Grootboom is not only paralysed but is suffering from a severe bedsore on her back after an operation to remove a growth from her spinal cord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This news became known to most only when her friend Kaylin Nesemann started the Back a Buddy campaign to raise funds for Queenie to go to Aurora rehabilitation centre to receive proper treatment and to cover other urgent medical care she requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason that most people did not know about Queenie\u2019s plight, is that she kept broadcasting from her little home studio especially created for her by the Algoa FM technical team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaylin in her Back a Buddy campaign statement said, \u201cAll she wants to be able to do is walk again. 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