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Hawthorn legend Ian Law is lucky to be alive after the 84-year-old spent hours struggling to stay afloat when he fell into raging floodwaters on the NSW/Victoria border recently.
Despite being blind, the ex-Hawk managed to dodge debris in the Darling River near Wentworth, NSW until he was rescued by people who spotted him struggling from a boat in early March.
Law has so far spent three weeks recovering in hospital after swallowing large amounts of water and suffering severe sunburn on his head as the current took him seven kilometres downstream while he fought for his life.
Law - who played a starring role in guiding the Hawks to their first flag in 1961 - had a
