.NRL_Bulldogs veteran Raymond Faitala-Mariner has revealed he spent a month bed-ridden and lost 6kg while fighting a particularly bad case of pneumonia earlier this NRL season. NRL 7NEWS
The diagnosis was only the beginning of Faitala-Mariner’s ordeal — seven weeks passed between NRL appearances as he fought the illness.Credit:“I was bed-ridden for four weeks. Last week was my second game back playing first grade and I could feel it in my lungs.”
Faitala-Mariner was lucky to have the support of his partner and his family back in New Zealand, but he jokes that he could have done with a bit of extra love from his Canterbury teammates. “There was one time the boys came and visited me in hospital and they came empty-handed. I was like, ‘Where’s the food? At least bring a coffee’,” Faitala-Mariner said with a laugh.
“But I have a partner who was being a part-time nurse, you could say, coming over and dropping off dinner then heading back to her place.”
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