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Manwaring recovering from meningitis in Australia
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Posted on Mar 16 2006
Many-time CNMI visitor and FIBA Oceania development officer Stuwart Manwaring is recovering at Canberra Hospital after falling ill of meningitis several months ago.
FIBA Oceania secretary general Steve Smith confirmed Manwaring’s condition in a recent email. It said that Manwaring is currently confined at the hospital’s infectious diseases ward and is undergoing physiotherapy rehabilitation.
“He is now getting out of bed and walking around for short spells. I am sure that once his strength builds up and he has more mobility, he will start to feel better,” the email read.
The email from Smith indicated that Manwaring’s condition has improved from the time he was admitted at Canberra Hospital. The message further said that initially it was hard to carry on a conversation on the phone with the FIBA official.
“It was a good sign that I could phone him because two weeks ago when I visited him he would not have been up to receiving a phone call or maintaining an abstract conversation. This time he was—although obviously taxed by the conversation,” according to the email.
Smith’s email proceeded to say that Manwaring is now aware of his situation, how long he has been sick, and has a good sense of his surroundings and his circumstances.
“Those of you who know him will understand that he is now getting very frustrated at the slowness of his recovery but is accepting the advice from his doctors that the road back will be slow and long term,” the email continued.
Manwaring, however, doesn’t have a confirmed diagnosis beyond his meningitis. However, he has already acknowledged the fact that he could have good and bad days.
Basketball Association of the Northern Mariana Islands vice president Elias Rangamar said the local basketball association has already learned about Manwaring’s illness and has sent him a get-well card.
Aside from crisscrossing the Pacific as part of his work as zone development officer for FIBA Oceania, Manwaring is also former state director of coaching in Tasmania, Australia and national coach of Mauritius. He has coached senior and junior men’s and women’s teams in a career that spans 35 years.
