By Dale AndrewsMany persons rarely survive a bullet to the head fired at point blank range. And evenWinfield spends most of the day being entertained by her favourite nephew Adam.if they survive initially, the damage that bullet would have been done to their brain would render them incapable of doing almost anything.This is not so with Roxanne Winfield, the Prison Officer who almost lost her life carrying out the task she was being paid to do– securing dangerous criminals in prison.For the past 10 years she has been an example of a true heroine to her children, refusing to give up despite losing a portion of her brain that controls her speech.The left side of her face bears testimony to the injury she received; a huge indentation on her left temple needs no explanation.She has also lost the use of her right eye and is unable to walk. She has lost the use of her right side, but what she lacks physically,Wholesale Jerseys From China, she makes up for it with her wit, since despite all that she has gone through, Winfield remains the same bubbly individual many had come to know and love before her misfortune.February 23, 2002, she was on duty at the Georgetown Prison when five criminals staged a break out from the facility.Winfield was in charge of the inner gate while 21-year old Prison Officer Troy Williams was manning the outer gate. Williams was later stabbed to death by the escaping criminals.Winfield was scheduled to be relieved soon as she had planned to attend the Mashramani Float Parade with her children.She hadn’t the slightest clue that her life would have been dramatically altered from that day on.Shortly after midday on Mash Day 2002,Cheap Wholesale Jerseys, five desperate criminals, Andrew Douglas,Cheap Jerseys From China, Dale Moore, Shawn Browne, Mark Fraser and Troy Dick, first approached her at her post and demanded the keys to facilitate their escape.Roxanne stood up to their demand and for that she almost paid the ultimate price.I sat down with her at her sister Jackie’s home in Melanie Damishana yesterday and was not totally surprised that she could recall the minute before her near death experience.Although the words were not being enunciated, I understood everything she was trying to tell me. She folded her fist to demonstrate that she held on to the gate keys.There are reports that when the men began to physically assault her, she threw the keys away, oblivious to the consequences of that act.Flashback: Relatives pray for the badly wounded Roxanne Winfield while she lay in a coma in the Georgetown Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.Angered by the stance that Winfield was taking, one of the bandits placed a shotgun to her head and pulled the trigger.For the next several weeks, Winfield remained in a coma on life support machines. The whole of Guyana prayed for her survival.When her condition became clearly known, of course there were some who felt that she should not be left to suffer and silently prayed for an end to her suffering.But her relatives had other plans for her. They were lucky to have the services of famed Caribbean Neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Span, and their faith in God.I vividly remember the long vigils that family members kept outside the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.I spent a few nights with them and could recall them, holding hands and praying for her survival.Every time the door of the ICU opened,Jerseys China Wholesale, they would anxiously demand answers about her condition from whoever emerged. Such was their desire to see her beat death.I remember one of her sisters, Patricia who had arrived from overseas, committing to everything in her power to ensure that Winfield received the treatment she required. For her, there was no question of pulling the plug on Winfield’s life.“Even if she is a vegetable we will look after her,” the sister has said.Her survival is testimony to her will to live to fulfill her purpose on earth and the undying show of strength of her family who had vowed to do all that they can to ensure that she was given a chance to see her two children Jamal and Anike become adults.I was informed that Jamal, now 26 years old, is in the interior, while Anike, 15, is preparing to write the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council examinations.Winfield has outlived her mother, father and husband all of whom were alive when she was battling for her life.Ten years later, it was a pleasure to sit with Roxanne Winfield whom I consider a true Guyanese heroine.I had expected to see a feeble, grey haired woman, but I was pleasantly surprised for she was neat and clean with her hair plaited in long braids.Her sister Jackie, who shares a village with me, told me yesterday that Winfield is an avid television fan