Dannevirke man Joel Perry is on the road to recovery in hospital after being attacked outside a friend's house in London about a month ago.
His parents still live in Dannevirke, but Joel had been working as a labourer in London for two years before being assaulted and robbed by a man on his friend's doorstep on June 9.
He managed to get free from his attacker and was pursued up on to a rail overpass.
The next thing he remembered was waking up at the bottom of some stairs, with a fractured pelvis, dislocated hip, fractured knee and ankle on his right leg, and a broken left heel.
After three surgeries, he had not yet been released from King's College Hospital in London said his brother Kent Perry, who lived in Auckland.