Christchurch: It has overcome health problems, former New Zealand Chris Cairns Chris Cairns on Saturday revealed that he had been diagnosed with intestinal cancer.
The 51-year-old had undergone four open heart surgery but left paralyzed by a spinal stroke at the operating table five months ago.
He lives in the Canberra University hospital in a special rehabilitation facility.
“Another battle in front but here hopes this one is a quick cutting and ending in the first round,” Cairns, who played 62 tests and 215 odi for New Zealand between 1989 and 2006, said on social media.
See this post on Instagram posts distributed by Chris Cairns (@ chrismairns2021) “I was told yesterday I had colon cancer …
big shock and not what I expected.” So, when I prepared the conversation and surgical rounds of specialists, I continued to remember how lucky I was here in the first place, “he said Urgent the heart surgery last September.
However, during the Cairn operation suffered a stroke which made him paralyzed on both legs.
Former NZ All-Rounder Chris Cairns is diagnosed with intestinal cancer
