A BRITISH teenage lady with a uncommon genetic situation needed to be positioned on a ventilator at Alicante’s Normal Hospital after her lungs full of blood whereas on vacation along with her dad and mom.
An internet fundraiser has been launched to pay for his or her prolonged keep which may final for a number of extra weeks.
Charlotte Meek, 13, from Larkhall close to Glasgow had loved Alicante’s Three Kings Parade on January 5, when she turned unwell early the subsequent day.
Her dad and mom Wendy and Stephen referred to as an ambulance to take her to hospital the place she stays in intensive care.
Charlotte began to expel blood from her mouth by means of coughing and vomiting brought on by a genetic situation referred to as SWAN (Syndrome with no title).
It’s so uncommon that medical doctors are unable to offer a analysis and it causes underlying well being points.
Tragically, the household misplaced Charlotte’s brother Justin in related circumstances whereas on a household vacation to Florida in 2014.
Her dad mentioned it was like a ‘mirror picture’ of their present plight.
Stephen recalled to the Day by day Report what occurred to Charlotte on January 6.
“We had three days having fun with a pleasant wee break, then within the early hours of Monday morning, Charlotte started to have coughing matches fairly constantly then started coughing up blood which isn’t good.”
“By 5.30am she was being violently sick with a whole lot of blood. Despite the fact that Charlotte has underlying well being situations, she had been effectively just lately so we had been apprehensive,” he added.
“By the point I received to the hospital she was already getting placed on a ventilator and her oxygen ranges had been worryingly low”.
Wendy and Stephen have been advised that it could possibly be weeks earlier than they will all return residence to Scotland.
They mentioned that Charlotte is awake and in a position to talk, stating that she is ‘an actual fighter and celebrity’.
As a way to pay for his or her prolonged keep in Alicante- in an condo near the hospital- the dad and mom have launched a fundraising marketing campaign and raised over €2,000 to this point.
Stephen mentioned: “They’ve advised us to arrange to spend weeks right here whereas Charlotte recovers, they nonetheless don’t know what the reason for the bleeding is.
Final yr, the Meek household based the SMILE Kids’s Charity and opened a retailer in Larkhall to lift cash to offer help to households of severely unwell kids.
