Mum, 34, stuck in Spanish hospital over Christmas after suffering stroke on holiday
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A 34-year-old mum has been stuck for months in a Spanish hospital after suffering a debilitating stroke on holiday. Robyn Taylor is unable to speak, paralysed on the right hand side of her body, blind in one eye and receives food and water via a tube in her stomach.
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She and her daughter Alana, 10, had been visiting her parents in Murcia when Robyn had a massive stroke on September 11, a day before the pair were due to fly home. Her parents found her on the bedroom floor and she was rushed to hospital, where she suffered two brain haemorrhages and had part of her skull removed.
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Although now out of a coma, Robyn, from Macclesfield in Cheshire, remains in hospital and needs repatriating to the UK, her family say, where she can receive the rehabilitation she cannot get in Spain. It’s hoped she will be able well enough to fly in January.
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However, the £12,565 repatriation costs are not covered by Robyn’s Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC), which provides Brits with emergency and medically necessary healthcare across the EU. The family therefore launched an online fundraiser and managed to raise the funds that way.
Dad 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.
