Said Chris Cains, former New zealand all-rounder in the cricket team. He is 51 year old. He suffered an aortic dissection- an often fatal rare heart condition- in the month of August. After four open heart surgeries, he had a spinal stroke on the operating table.
Four months later he is living at the University of Canberra hospital in a special rehabilitation facility.’I don’s know if I will ever walk again & I have made my peace with that’ he is quoted to have said.
He played 62 tests & 215 ODIs for New Zealand between 1989 to 2006. Now he is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. But he said he is simply ‘lucky to be still here’.
His wife Mel is with him the whole time. ‘It is 14 weeks since his injury but feels like a lifetime when I look back. I have zero recollection of the eight or nine days when I had four open heart surgeries’ he says.
We fans feel it is a nightmare. One can still see a fair, lanky, smart fellow striding on the cricket ground with his shock of curly hair. He was known for his shots. Many a times he has saved & won matches for New Zealand.
He retired from test cricket in 2004. He is regarded as one of greatest all rounders of the game. If not on the ground, we wish him to be with the family. To make a speedy, complete, recovery matching his unbeaten spirit!
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