Canberra: Former former New Zealand who is bound by a wheelchair, Chris Cairns said he was “very lucky still alive”, three months after the medical emergency made it in living support.
The 51-year-old woman recovered from the spinal stroke which made her paralyzed, after several complicated operations.
“We don’t know what happened in the future.
I don’t know if I will walk, I don’t know if I will stand up.
But I can stand up.
I might walk.
The only choice is to keep going.
The problem is I’m not even lucky Be (live).
I am very lucky, “Cairn said as quoted by Canberra Times.
When he opened his post, fear, Cairns was flanked by his wife Melanie.
Son of Lance Cairns, who is also an all-rounder for the New Zealand team in the 1970s and 80s, Cairns Junior has suffered a major medical emergency – Dissection of Aorta – in August and was transferred to a specialist hospital in Sydney, where He has undergone an emergency heart surgery that saves life before facing more complications after the spinal stroke.
Aorta dissection is a serious medical condition where tears occur in the layer in the body’s main artery (aorta).
He had been cleaned to start “using his chest and arm for the first time in three months when he continued his recovery”.
“The amazing thing through this is just perseverance to keep on guard back.
You must be prepared,” Cairns said.
One of the best all-rounders of the time, Cairns played 62 tests, 215 ODIS and two T20i for New Zealand between 1989 and 2006.
His wife Melanie said, “Chris not only experienced a stroke one day and (lost), he has two weeks Close to (death).
So we start from the thank you, and every bit we return after it’s just extra.
“He was here, he was still him.
Yes there is a physical challenge, but in the gym he said (to staff) you showed me the bar and I would destroy it.
“He was very motivated to return to the tennis court with our daughter, whether it was running around or in a wheelchair.
He will still try to beat him, that’s him.
The motivation makes it really good to try to handle something like this.” Talking about the opportunities of Zealand It was only in the T20 World Cup final against Australia, Cairns said the country’s cricket was “very, very healthy”.
“I played with (New Zealand coach) Gary Stead in Canterbury for a decade.
He is one of the unsung heroes.
The last two years I mean, you know, New Zealand’s cricket is very, very healthy.”