A Gold Coast mother’s heartbreaking plea for 0 negative blood to save her 8-month-old girl in Thailand
GOLD Coast mother’s heartbreaking plea for 0 negative blood to save her 8-month-old girl in Thailand.
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A GOLD Coast mother on holidays in Phuket has made an heartbreaking plea to help save the life of her baby girl.
UPDATE: LATEST CONDITION ON LILLIANA FROM OCTOBER 31
On Friday afternoon Elisha Robinson from Nerang posted on a Facebook community page called Phuket 101 Community crying out for o negative blood.
“MY BABY IS DYING IN BANGKOK HOSPITAL PHUKET TOWN SHE NEEDS O NEG BLOOD,” she wrote.
“PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE PLEASE IM BEGGING I CANT LOOSE MY BABY.”
The former Trinity Lutheran College student explained that her eight-month-old daughter had septicaemia and meningococcal.
And the heartbreaking situation was only made worse by Ms Robinson having 0 negative blood but not being able to give it to her dying daughter.
“She can only have o neg and they won’t allow me to donate my o neg blood as I haven’t been here for 6 months,” she wrote.
“I don’t understand.”
The post was made on Friday about 5pm Gold Coast time and has been shared 1500 times since.
One person wrote that the post had driven people to donate blood.
“Even Thais are going to the red cross to donate,” Chrisna Van Wyk wrote.
“It’s amazing.”
However at 11pm Gold Coast time, Ms Robinson posted that her daughter still needed a transfusion.
“She is still fighting septicaemia as well as meningococcal,” she wrote.
“Please pray for us.
“My baby girl is my life.”
At 2pm today someone posted that the child Lilli was still unstable.
“Talked to the ICU at BKK Hospital this morning,” Kate Rutkovskaya posted.
“Lilli’s state is unstable, she has sepsis and needs blood constantly.
“We’re sending 3 donors to the Red Cross today.”
At about 2.30pm today Elisha Robinson made another thanking the more than 1000 people who donated blood on Friday.
She said Lilli’s chance of survival before that were slim but she had since made a “tiny improvement” and doctors were now more positive that she may survive.
But now Ms Robinson is desperate to get her daughter back to Australia for medical treatment.
A Facebook page has been set up to raise money to bring Lilli homes.
In one day $2400 has been raised.
To donate click here.