Robyn Taylor’s found her on the floor and she was rushed to hospital
A mum will spend Christmas in a Spanish hospital after suffering a massive stroke on holiday. Robyn Taylor, 34, has been left unable to speak, paralysed on her right hand side, blind in one eye and is given food and water via a tube into her stomach following her stroke.
Her family are now fighting to get the Robyn the care that she desperately needs. The mum, from Upton Priory, Cheshire, had been visiting her parents Tony and Karen Sumner in Murcia.
On September 11, just days before she was to return home, Robyn was found on the bedroom floor after suffering a stroke by her parents. She was rushed to hospital, where she suffered two brain haemorrhages and had part of her skull removed.
Although now out of a coma Robyn remains in hospital and needs repatriating to the UK, where she can receive the rehabilitation she cannot get in Spain, reports Cheshire Live. It is hoped she will be well enough for this in January but the £12,565 required is not covered by her GHIC card.
So the family has launched an online fundraiser in a bid to get Robyn home and begin her recovery journey. Only then will they begin find out the extent of permanent damage her ordeal has caused.
Tony, 59, said: “We have lots of photos of her and the family on the wall in her room, in the hope it jogs something. Some days we get recognition from her, other days we get nothing. She has no history of stroke symptoms and there is no family history, we want to know why it happened at such a young age.”
“It is a situation you have never been in before, when it first happened it was like a parallel universe and a massive emotional rollercoaster. Three weeks felt like six months, it consumes you and becomes everything you do, think and talk about. Robyn is bubbly and a bit fiery, she’s a loving 34-year-old.”
Tony and Karen have lived in Spain for 15 years and Robyn visited them with her daughter Alana, 10, on September 1. Alana is currently staying with her grandparents, who look after her, work and spend as much time as possible at the hospital with Robyn.
Her far longer stay aboard than intended is also causing problems with her Universal Credit, which is another battle Tony and Karen are trying to fight on her behalf. But for now their main concern is getting Robyn home, where she can begin physiotherapy, speech therapy and neuro stimulation.
What parts of the brain can function again and how long this will take remain unknowns. Although efforts have been made to shield Alana from the worst of it she has been told her mum may not be the same again.
Tony added: “It is all up in the air and that is the frustration. We try to remain positive.” To donate visit justgiving.com and search ‘I’m raising £12,500 to Help get my cousin Robyn back to the UK for urgent medical care’.
