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'Devastating' illness that ruined Olympic dream - CtrlF.XYZ

'Devastating' illness that ruined Olympic dream

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When Marata Niukore needs inspiration successful his football, helium lone needs to look to his woman Nikki.

Nikki was 1 of New Zealand's astir promising swimmers a fewer years agone erstwhile struck down by a devastating illness.

She contracted a terrible but uncommon illness known arsenic ulcerative colitis, which enactment her beingness successful the balance.

Emergency country resulted successful her having her colon removed and she was forced to deterioration a colostomy container to drain her bodily waste.

She survived and was told she was retired of danger, earlier the illness returned, reducing her beingness to a nightmare bid of recurring visits to infirmary and aggregate operations.

Setback aft setback has lone brought the brace person - and they are soon expecting their 3rd child.

"She is my rock, my inspiration," Niukore told Wide World of Sports.

"We had a imagination - maine playing NRL and her going to the Olympics.

"Hers was cruelly taken distant and she has fought truthful galore brave battles.

"She has besides fixed up a batch to marque my footy dreams travel existent and I can't convey Nikki enough.

"She has her pugnacious days and I effort to assistance her done them and easiness her pain."

Away from household and friends successful New Zealand, the Niukores person recovered themselves a mates of consenting babysitters successful Eels manager Brad Arthur and his woman Michelle.

"They person been a godsend for us," Niukore says.

"When I person grooming oregon americium distant for games and Nikki is successful hospital, Michelle takes the kids - she has specified a benignant heart, arsenic does Brad."

But the Niukores knew that they request to beryllium backmost adjacent their loved ones erstwhile their 3rd kid arrives successful December - and that's wherefore the large guardant has signed to instrumentality location to the Warriors successful 2023.

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"We emotion it astatine Parra but 3 kids, Nikki's battles and my vocation conscionable marque it excessively hard implicit present successful Sydney," helium said.

"We besides privation the kids' grandparents to get to cognize them amended and they are much than consenting to assistance america out."

Despite her problems and engaged lifestyle, Nikki is reasoning of others.

She makes beauteous covers for colostomy bags and visits patients with her unfortunate information successful hospital, giving them distant for free.

"That's the benignant of idiosyncratic she is," Niukore says. "She is my hero."

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