Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns does not know if he will ever walk again but says he is lucky to be alive after a series of life-threatening surgeries left him paralysed waist down. The 51-year-old suffered an aortic dissection - an often fatal rare heart condition - in August and was on life support. He was saved by four open heart surgeries but he had a spinal stroke on the operating table. “I don’t know if I will ever walk again and I have made my peace with that,” he was quoted as saying by stuff.co.nz. I have zero recollection of the eight or nine days when I had four open heart surgeries.

Source: Stuff December 03, 2021 07:29 UTC