Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nBrisbane player Deine Mariner has thanked Broncos medical staff with getting him to hospital. Picture: InstagramSource: Supplied Source Known<\/p>\n
Mariner is recovering well from the freak condition, with the winger explaining everything he\u2019s been through in recent weeks. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe first two surgeries, they were opening up my leg to release the pressure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen over the next five surgeries, they had to close it up little by little.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t used to going back under anaesthetics for that long. It was pretty full on, but I was in such good hands. <\/p>\n
\u201cShout out to Dr Gupta and his team at St Vincent\u2019s Private Hospital. They were the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to be here today if it wasn\u2019t for them. Even the doctors were saying they haven\u2019t seen this happen before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in such good hands. I\u2019m not too stressed about the next couple weeks. At the moment my leg is stuck a bit, so once that opens up, I\u2019ll be able to start moving again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of confidence in myself to get back out there again for the Broncos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Incredibly, Mariner expects to be back before the finals.<\/p>\n
Mariner expects to be back playing for the Broncos in a couple of months. Picture: Chris Hyde\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re looking around the eight-week mark (for returning to play),\u201d Mariner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously we\u2019ve still got plenty more games to go, so I\u2019ll just have to take it day by day and let the body heal itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me a bit more hunger to get back out there. At the same time, I just want to make sure that I\u2019m doing the best for myself and putting myself in a good position for my body to heal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a pretty hectic week. My leg is doing a lot better and I am back home now which helps. I\u2019m good. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty full on with everything but I had a really good support group and the club were so good to me and my family. I am in a pretty good headspace.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the time comes, I\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos winger Deine Mariner is set to make a miraculous return to the footy field this season just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-684746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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