Mum stuck in Spanish hospital for Christmas after stroke as family tries to get her home
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A beloved mum has been left unable to speak and paralysed on one side after suffering a stroke in Spain, where she will have to stay over Christmas. Robyn Taylor, 34, had been visiting her parents Tony and Karen Sumner in Murcia when she was found on the bedroom floor, days before she was due to return home. She was rushed to hospital, where she suffered two brain haemorrhages and had part of her skull removed as she was placed in a coma for two weeks.
The family has launched an online fundraiser in a bid to get Robyn home and begin her recovery. Dad Tony told CheshireLive : “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 was visiting them with her daughter Alana, 10, in September, when she had the stroke. Alana is currently staying with her grandparents, who look after her, work and spend as much time as possible at the hospital with Robyn.
