An Australian lady is combating for her life after a dream journey to Bali turned to horror.
Tegan Roberts, 25, from the south coast of NSW, was within the vacationer hotspot to have a good time her youthful sister Maddy’s 18th birthday, alongside along with her dad and stepmother.
They arrived on the seaside resort of Kuta on February 27 and loved a day of sightseeing.
However issues took an surprising flip when Tegan started to fall in poor health after complaining about feeling dehydrated and “yukky”.
She texted her mom Anne-Marie, who was again dwelling in Shoalhaven, saying she “vomited once more” and that she had no vitality, “not even to stroll to the bathroom”.
“Throughout the first day she despatched me a message saying ‘I’m not feeling nice, Mum’,” Anne-Marie instructed information.com.au.
“She has cystic fibrosis and had a double lung transplant 5 years in the past, so she has all the time struggled with well being since beginning — so I’m used to her saying she’s not feeling the perfect.”
However when Tegan texted saying she wanted to “get on a aircraft dwelling and go straight to hospital”, along with her sister additionally texting their mum to say she was fairly in poor health, Anne-Marie knew one thing wasn’t proper.
“She stated she felt ‘yukky’, she stopped responding,” Anne-Marie stated.
It despatched the mother-of-two right into a panic.
The 25-year-old had collapsed and was rushed to BIMC Hospital in Kuta the place she ended up in ICU.
Anne-Marie took the primary flight out of Sydney to Bali on the Sunday morning to seek out her daughter barely responsive.
“I had by no means seen her so sick,” a distraught Anne-Marie instructed information.com.au. “It was actually terrible.
“She stated, ‘Am I going to die?’”
Combating again tears, Anne-Marie instructed her daughter she’s not, however her well being has since severely declined.
Tegan was flown to Perth by a medevac emergency flight and is at the moment combating for her life at Fiona Stanley Hospital.
“She is on life-support. Her kidneys have failed, she’s on dialysis and she or he’s had respiratory failure,” Anne-Marie stated.
“They are saying it was extreme dehydration. She additionally had swabs finished it revealed she had rhinovirus.”
It’s a widespread chilly, however they’ll trigger extreme sickness, particularly in individuals with weakened immune programs, bronchial asthma, or different underlying medical situations.
Anne-Marie stated given how sizzling it was in Bali on the day Tegan fell in poor health, and getting so severely dehydrated, whereas the hospital did the perfect they might, “she wasn’t getting sufficient fluids”.
“And with cystic fibrosis, you sweat greater than others … and in the event you lose all of your salts and electrolytes, you grow to be dehydrated.”
Individuals who have cystic fibrosis have a defective protein that impacts the physique’s cells, its tissues, and the glands that make mucus and sweat, in keeping with the Nationwide Institues of Well being.
Tegan, who additionally now has acute phenomena, is at the moment in a secure situation.
“She is totally unresponsive. Docs have her secure however her kidneys have utterly gone. The docs try to wean again the help she’s on however they’ve been unable to as her kidneys haven’t responded but.”
Anne-Marie’s mates have began a GoFundMe to assist with medical prices together with the $130,000 medevac aircraft which the household could should fork out if insurance coverage doesn’t cowl it.
“The insurance coverage firm organised the flight in good will, however we needed to signal papers that we should foot invoice as they’ll’t assure it is going to be absolutely coated,” Anne-Marie stated.
Thus far, $23,251 has been raised, with the very best donation at $5000.
The incapacity help employee, who has needed to put her job on maintain to be by her daughter’s mattress facet, stated she’s overwhelmed by the love and help from mates and strangers.
“I’m a bit overwhelmed by all of it,” she instructed information.com.au as she fought again tears.
The household is praying for Tegan’s restoration and whereas Anne-Marie stated she had hesitations over the Bali journey, she simply needed her daughter to be comfortable. It additionally marked her first journey since her double lung transplant 5 years in the past.
“After all I used to be involved, however Tegan’s life has been shortened due to Cystic Fibrosis, and so I simply need her to have the ability to have enjoyable.”
“She has been by rather a lot along with her well being.”