Chris Cairns “in peace” will never walk again

New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns has opened up about his recovery against a painful health test and admits that he has “agreed to peace” by never being able to walk again.

The 51-year-old man stayed paralyzed after stroke in connection with an operation rescued in August.

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The former all-rounder was overthrown and rushed to a hospital in Canberra, where he was placed to support the animal after a rupture of the mucosa of the large artery of his heart developed.

Cairns then underwent four open heart surgeries To Sydney after the transfer and suffered a spinal cord paralysis down the waist.

The former test star has spent the last few months in the rehabilitation department at the University Hospital of Canberra.

While Cairns admitted he might never walk again, he said he was only grateful he was alive.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever walk again, and I’ve made peace with it,” he said UK Telegraph on Friday.

“Now it’s about realizing that I can live a full and enjoyable life in a wheelchair, but at the same time knowing it’s going to be different.

– It’s been 14 weeks since I got injured, and it feels like life when I look back. I don’t remember zero of the eight or nine days I had four open heart surgeries.

“My wife, Mel, was with me the whole time, and I have to keep it back to her all the time. I was completely out of it.

“I remember leaving the kids at school that morning. But with aortic surgery, you are a working time bomb.

“The tear of your artery is bleeding and your blood pressure is dropping. You are in the fog.

“I remember coming to the emergency room, vomiting and then they measured my blood pressure and rushed through me.

“They put me upside down to make blood flow down to my brain. The next thing I remember is waking up in Sydney nine days later not knowing what happened.”

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Chris Cairns’ glittering cricket career

Cairns lives and works in Canberra with his wife Mel and their children and is the CEO of virtual sports company SmartSportz.

Cairns played 62 tests, 215 one-day international matches and two Twenty20 matches in New Zealand between 1989 and 2006.

He was one of the best all-rounders of his era, especially in shorter formats.

He collected over 3,000 runs in test cricket and nearly 5,000 ODIs, while crossing the 200-wicket mark in both forms.

Cairns was named one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year in 2000 and was awarded a New Zealand Badge of Merit when he retired from the Tests in 2004.

She has lived in Canberra for several years after marrying Australian Melanie Croser in 2010.

When he retired from international cricket, he was charged with amicable settlement in India as captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the 2008 Indian Cricket League (ICL).

He denied any wrongdoing and fought several legal battles to find out his name. He won a defamation case against former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Mod in 2012.

In 2015, he was released from a false oath in a defamation case after he was indicted by the British Crown Prosecution Service.

With AAP

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