British gran who collapsed on holiday flight now trapped in Croatia in a coma

A grandma who was hoping for a vacation successful Corfu with her granddaughter and adjacent person has been stuck successful infirmary for much than a fortnight.

68-year-old Barbara Wilkinson was flying from East Midlands Airport with her adjacent person Carol and granddaughter Tamara, 13, connected October 14 erstwhile she fell ill.

Not agelong aft the level took disconnected she started coughing and fell into a ‘comatose’ state.

The level made an exigency landing successful Croatia wherever Barbara was whisked to infirmary by ambulance – and she’s been stuck successful the state thousands of miles from location ever since.

At archetypal it was suspected the erstwhile vocalist and entertainer had suffered a stroke, and she was placed into the betterment presumption successful the aisle of the level until it landed.

But pursuing a CT scan astatine Zadar General Hospital it was discovered she had suffered a ‘life-threatening’ encephalon aneurysm.

She was past transferred to University Hospital Centre Zagreb for exigency surgery, wherever Barbara remains successful a coma.

Her question security doesn’t screen the outgo of flying her backmost to the UK, truthful her granddaughter Destiny Jordan is trying to rise the £35,000 needed to alert her beloved gran backmost home.

Destiny, a lawsuit work advisor from Aspley successful Nottingham, told MailOnline: ‘She had a formation successful the greeting and got to the airdrome good and was with my sister and 1 of her adjacent friends.

‘She got connected the formation good and past she conscionable took a nap connected the plane.

‘[At immoderate constituent connected the flight] my sister gave her a saccharine and she started coughing.

‘They thought she mightiness person been choking connected a saccharine astatine first. When my sister looked implicit to her she was coughing with her eyes unfastened and they got a spot worried.

‘She past went backmost to slumber and past woke up and started coughing with her eyes unfastened again.

‘She went backmost to slumber a 3rd clip but past my sister tried to aftermath her up and she wouldn’t aftermath up.

‘At first, they thought it was a stroke. The formation attendant indispensable person spoken to the aviator and that is erstwhile they fto everyone cognize that the level was going to marque an exigency landing successful Croatia.

‘When they landed she was taken consecutive successful an ambulance to hospital.

‘They recovered retired it was a ruptured aneurysm and it was a terrible 1 and counted arsenic life-threatening.

‘She past needed exigency country and she was moved to different hospital.

‘I was astatine enactment astatine the clip erstwhile I recovered retired astir my grandma. I had a panic onslaught and was successful tears consecutive away. I conscionable wanted to get my grandma location and I did interest that she was going to die.

‘We lone presume that it was an aneurysm that was already determination and past the unit successful the compartment made this rupture.’

After undergoing exigency surgery, they tried to bring Barbara retired of her coma which was palmy astatine first.

But arsenic she struggled to respire connected her own, doctors had to execute a tracheostomy and enactment her backmost nether sedation.

Destiny said her grandma’s security volition not wage to alert her location to the UK arsenic she ‘forgot’ to state each the medications she was taking.

Once her gran wakes up, doctors person said she could beryllium near with terrible disabilities from the aneurysm and necessitate 24-hour attraction – a immense imaginable conflict for Barbara who loves to question and walk clip with her friends and family.

Destiny added: ‘It was unspeakable erstwhile we recovered retired we would person to effort and get her location connected our own.

‘[Her security doesn’t screen her], each due to the fact that she forgot to notation a mates of medications connected her form.

‘They person told maine that she could beryllium near with terrible disabilities and request round-the-clock care.

‘This is truly scary and I cognize she wouldn’t privation to unrecorded similar this.

‘It would mean the implicit satellite to person her location for the full family.

‘She means the satellite to america and she is the astir astonishing grandma successful the satellite and raised me.’

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