The NRL will throw Jai Arrow the “world’s biggest birthday party” on July 12 when his former team South Sydney play Newcastle at Accor Stadium, asking supporters to bring donations for MND charities instead of presents.
Arrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and forced into retirement last month, flew out of Sydney on Friday to spend a week at SHA Spain, a wellness retreat tucked into the Sierra Helada hillside on the Mediterranean Sea.
Arrow said his schedule is “flat out”, with the resort offering everything from saunas and massages to the more complex hyperbaric oxygen chambers, cryotherapy and photobiomodulation red light sessions.
On Tuesday, Arrow underwent “intermittent hypoxic therapy” where he inhaled alternates of low (hypoxic) oxygen and high (hyperoxic) oxygen.
But as much as Arrow is in Spain for the health treatments, he’s predominantly there to escape.
