Gold Coast baby Lilliana was flown to Bangkok last night to see doctors who will make a decision to amputate or not

GOLD Coast baby Lilliana was flown to Bangkok last night to see doctors who will make a decision to amputate or not

AN aircraft is on standby at Gold Coast Airport to fly to Thailand and bring sick baby Lilliana Sheridan home.

UPDATE: LATEST CONDITION ON LILLIANA FROM OCTOBER 31

The eight-month-old was flown from a Phuket hospital to Bangkok late last night where doctors will make a decision to amputate her legs.

Little Lilliana’s parents — Elisha Robinson, 23, and Jai Sheridan, 25, from Nerang — raced her to a hospital in Phuket on Thursday when she contracted meningococcal through septic poisoning.

Her arms and legs were swollen and black and purple.

Baby Lilliana Sheridan has infections in both of her legs after contracting meningococcal while in Thailand on holiday with her Gold Coast family. They want to bring her home to Australia as Thai doctors talk about possible amputation.

The swelling and infection caused nerve damage to her legs and might mean they have to be amputated.

“If they need to take action there they will and if it can wait she will be going home,” Mr Sheridan said Tuesday.

Mr Sheridan said the family’s insurance company Zoom confirmed yesterday afternoon it would pay for the medevac to Bangkok and Australia if it was needed.

Before that the family had raised about $12,000 on a Facebook page and almost $10,000 on a Go Fund Me page.

Elisha Robinson made an emotion plea for help to save her daughter who is sick in Phuket.

The fundraising efforts had a hiccup on Monday night when Ms Robinson, responding to abusive messages, deleted her Facebook account associated with the donating page.

Facebook shutdown the page at the same time as part of its procedures, emailing all donors that their money would be handed back.

However, Facebook said the situation would be rectified.

“Our hearts go out to the family and their efforts to raise important funds for their daughter,” a Facebook spokesman said.

“In this instance, the fundraiser was removed automatically after the personal account linked to the fundraiser was deleted. We are reaching out to the family and working to rectify the situation with them.”

Lilliana was transported from Phuket to Bangkok for an assessment on her legs.

Mr Sheridan said the money raised would now go towards Lilliana’s rehabilitation.

After reading Lilliana’s story in the Bulletin yesterday, Medical Rescue director Glenn McKay reached out to her family and insurance company to help.

Dr McKay said the majority of his medical staff had raised their hands to volunteer to do the trip for free.

“It is good to do good things and this is one of those,” he said.

“I have spoken to the family and have extended our offers to help.

“As a medical company we have personnel on standby and an aircraft on standby.”

The family has been desperately trying to get Lilliana back to Australia as Thai doctors have been discussing amputating Lilliana’s legs for three days.

Lilliana is in a Thai hospital and her parents just want to bring her back to Australia for medical treatment.

Before that doctors didn’t believe Lilliana would survive the infection.

On Friday, Ms Robinson made a heartfelt plea for people to donate O negative blood as there was none left in the hospital for Lilliana.

“My baby is dying in Bangkok Hospital Phuket Town,” she wrote.

“She needs O negative blood, please help me, someone please, I’m begging I can’t lose my baby.”

Gold Coast mother Elisha Robinson has made a heartbreaking plea to save her baby girl's life while in Phuket.

Within a day more than 1000 people had donated blood to the Red Cross and Lilliana started to improve.

“We’re both just overwhelmed with the help everyone has given us,” Mr Sheridan said yesterday.

“And the help the Thai government and hospitals have helped.”

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