Help us save our Mums life

Our beautiful mother, Lesley flew solo from Dublin to Dubai to visit one of her daughters to help with her grandchildren on the 10th September as her daughter is going through a challenging pregnancy. The whole house was striken with a sickness bug and mum was the last to catch it, starting to show symptoms on 15th September. She took a turn for the worst on the 20th September and was admitted to hospital for fluids. They let her out late that night. On our return from hospital we were all tired and went to sleep to let mum rest. On Saturday 21st September the unimaginable happened and we found mum unconscious and unresponsive in bed.

The ambulance arrived, working on stabilising her, mentioning it was critical and what hospital to take her too. We opted for Parkview Mediclinic as it’s one of the most reputable in Dubai.

On our arrival into A&E the doctors rushed to do testing, confirming she had sepsis, blood poisoning and her organs were failing. She was rushed to ICU and they worked on her for 2 hours stabilising her and keeping her alive until they decided on a treatment plan.

Doctors advised she was minutes to 1 hour away from passing when we found her if the paramedicis didn’t react as fast as they did. The A&E doctors were world class, working to stabilise our mum.

Mum is on a ventilator, they have fitted a central line to her heart. She has started kidney dialysis. She has severe liver failure. We were informed she’s too sick for us to stay with her and had to leave. This is mums worst nightmare, I know she would be scared and wouldn’t want to be left alone. Family are arriving from home today, 23rd September as advised, as she is critical. The next 12-24 hours are crucial for her to receive the correct treatment while her body responds to the treatment plan the doctors seem fit.

Mum has no private health insurance. We have been told the odds are against us. But when we are negotiating with life or death, if she has a chance to survive this we have to try everything we can. We have already paid £15,000 in the first 24 hours, for her just to be seen in A&E and admitted into ICU. The hospital bills are only starting and are mounting.

We are embarrassed to ask for help, but right now I’d do anything to save her and spend more time with our mum. Right now we suspect medical bills to be £000,000s and if mum recovers we will have to fly her back to the UK. It takes the financial burden of family who will do what it takes to make sure we have funds in place for her to fight this.

Please pray for our Mum ❤️ she is too young to go and we need her