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Chris Cairns faces a agelong roadworthy to recovery, with paralysis successful his legs aft suffering a changeable successful his spine.
The erstwhile Black Caps allrounder has returned to Canberra wherever helium lives, but remains successful a superior information aft suffering complications following large bosom country successful Sydney.
Cairns suffered an aortic dissection, a large aesculapian lawsuit which saw him transferred to Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital connected beingness enactment earlier this month.
A connection issued by Cairns' lawyer Aaron Lloyd connected Friday confirmed the latest connected his condition:
"During the life-saving exigency bosom country Chris underwent successful Sydney helium suffered a changeable successful his spine. This has resulted successful paralysis successful his legs," the connection said.
"As a effect helium volition beryllium undertaking a important rehabilitation process astatine a specializer spinal infirmary successful Australia.
"Chris and his household stay appreciative of the immense nationalist enactment arsenic they woody with this hard time.
"They besides admit the mode successful which their privateness has been respected.
"Chris and his household present privation to absorption connected spending clip unneurotic wherever imaginable and making immoderate advancement they tin successful his recovery. We volition update everyone erstwhile determination is much news, but that is apt to beryllium immoderate clip away."
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