A BRITISH vacationer will obtain pressing medical remedy within the UK after a fundraising goal to get her residence was met this weekend.
Robyn, 34, wanted £12,500 to be transferred by way of street ambulance from Murcia, along with her household organising a Just Giving page to safe the funds.
The entire has now surpassed that mark, greater than doubling from simply over £6,000 earlier within the week, when Robyn’s story was revealed within the Olive Press and unfold far and extensive on social media.
Robyn suffered a life-changing stroke whereas visiting her dad and mom, Anthony and Karen Sumnar, in early September.
It occurred the day earlier than she was resulting from fly again to Britain, adopted by two mind haemorrhages, one in every of which has left her with everlasting mind harm.
After spending two weeks in a coma, Robyn urgently must return to the UK by ambulance to obtain life-changing neuro-rehabilitation – care that she will not be coated for below her GHIC card in Spain – and which additionally doesn’t cowl repatriation prices.
In an replace yesterday, the Simply Giving web page mentioned: “You the folks have helped us attain our goal funds in order that my Auntie & Uncle can organise and facilitate Robyn’s repatriation again to the UK so she will be able to begin her restoration, rehabilitation and therapeutic course of.
“We’ll ceaselessly be glad about your generosity and kindness at one of many hardest occasions of the 12 months – Xmas time.
“So from our household to yours, have a really merry xmas and a cheerful new 12 months and be relaxation assured that with out your love and help, we couldn’t have completed any of this. With love, Robyns household.”
Robyn’s father Anthony, who has lived together with his spouse in Roldan for 15 years, beforehand instructed the Olive Press: “The day earlier than Robyn was resulting from journey again to the UK on the eleventh, was when the tragedy occurred, we went into her bed room to wake her and located her on the ground not responding, we referred to as the ambulance who took her to Los Arcos Hospital in San Javier.
“It was there they confirmed after a scan that she had suffered a extreme stroke measuring 21 on the INHSS (stroke scale) and instantly transferred her to Arrixaca hospital in Murcia metropolis that has the specialist neurosurgery facility.
“Inside six hours Robyn then suffered a mind haemorrhage and was operated on, 4 hours later she suffered one other one which was deeper into her mind than the primary and we needed to signal a consent kind earlier than they’d function as this one was contact and go if she would survive it.
“Fortunately, she did, nevertheless we had been knowledgeable it could lead to everlasting mind harm as a result of location of the bleed (basal ganglia).”
Anthony defined: “Three weeks later she was moved onto a neurosurgical excessive dependency ward awaiting the alternative of part of her cranium that was eliminated through the second operation, to permit her mind to swell exterior from the irritation.
“The operation was a hit and on November 20 she was transferred again to Los Arcos the place she is presently.
“Her right-hand aspect paralysis stays, and she will be able to’t see out of her proper eye, she can’t communicate, talk, or carry out easy requests, she is fed and hydrated by way of a direct tube into her abdomen and her meds are administered by way of a tube in her arm.
“She desperately wants rehabilitation that she will not be coated for on her GHIC card therefore the fundraiser.”
