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 in stuff.co.nz. I have zero recollection of the eight or nine days when I had four open heart surgeries. I was completely out of it.”Cairns feels his sporting career is helping his recovery as he hopes to be able to walk again.

Source: Stuff December 03, 2021 21:48 UTC