Help us to get our mum home!

Firstly let me start by saying this is something that we have never wanted to do, neither ever imagined we would need to do. However it is now a case of asking for help to get our mum home or wait and watch her deteriorate daily, and the second one is not an option!

Here’s the back story….my mum Colleen and dad Steve came over to Spain for what they thought was going to be a relaxing few days away. My mum became unwell with a gallbladder infection and gallstones. She was rushed into a private hospital where she has now been for SIX weeks.

Rather than removing the gallbladder the medical team decided the best option was to place abdominal drains, when this was being preformed the surgeon unknowingly nicked my mums gallbladder. Over the next few days my mums infection markers kept getting worse and know one could understand why…unknown to us the infection that was contained in the gallbladder was now leaking into her abdomen and infecting all her other organs. My mums was admitted to intensive care and was now suffering from multiple organ failure!

From this point on she has stayed in intensive care for 4 weeks out of the 6, she has had a total of 7 abdominal drains which have all ended up failing, umpteen scans and procedures and also a large, complex and now unsuccessful operation on her abdomen.

Where are we now….unfortunately my mum is still critical and has had another set back. My mum started to deteriorate yesterday and is now back on oxygen due to her stats dropping. Another MRI scan had shown that she now has a further large amount of infection in her abdomen and they are not completely sure where it is coming from. There has been talks of her need to travel 40 miles to have another procedure and now the possibility also another invasive and complicated operation.

As you can imagine we are desperately wanting to get my mum home so that she can be treated at her local hospital but the more I witness her deteriorating and becoming weaker, the harder it is to imagine how this is going to happen unless we fund it and get her an air ambulance privately.

My mum does have travel insurance and they are covering her medical costs, however they are dragging their feet and are now saying that she needs to finish all treatment over in Spain before flying home commercially the doctors here have said that this can take a number of weeks. We have been quoted £39,000 for a medical air ambulance home for her.

We need to get my mum home, she deserves to be cared for in her own country, surrounded and supported by all her family.

As a family we have done everything that we could do ourselves, however the financial strain these last six weeks have had on our whole family has been overwhelming.

Therefore we are reaching out to anyone who could help us to get my mum home by donating❤️❤️