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A mum is battling for her life after suffering a horror collapse on holiday. Stephanie Williams had been enjoying a family trip to Spain when she became seriously ill hours before she was due to fly home to Wales.
Almost a week later, the mum-of-four remains in a critical condition in a Spanish hospital with members of her family by her side.
The nightmare began last Saturday (June 8) when Stephanie and her family, from Swansea, were getting ready to travel to the airport in order to return home from their trip to Alicante in the Costa Blanca area of Spain. But at around 1am, to the horror of her family, Stephanie became unwell in her hotel room and had a seizure, WalesOnline reports.
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Her daughter Aimee said it was “unimaginable” that something like this could happen to such a young mother, who she described as “the most selfless person in the whole world”. Aimee made contact with family back home to arrange for £3,000 to be transferred so that her mum could begin receiving treatment at a Spanish hospital near to the hotel where the family were staying.
While travel insurance is now covering the cost of her treatment at a different hospital, the family had to fork out thousands of pounds initially as Stephanie endured numerous tests before undergoing urgent brain surgery on Monday (June 10), with costs climbing above the £10,000 mark.
Stephanie’s partner remains in Alicante with her, and her father and brothers have flown out to be by her side. Despite the operation being a success, Stephanie remains in a “very critical condition in intensive care” and the family has no idea at this stage of her prognosis or how long she
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