Australian woman living in America granted wish to return home to be with her mum

An Australian woman living overseas has opened up about her battle to get home to see her mother, who is currently fighting for life in hospital.

A woman desperately trying to return home to Australia to see her gravely ill mother will be granted an exemption to fly into the country, but will have to wait two weeks to see her.

Rebecca Vickers, who has been living in Chicago, will be able to fly home within days to see her mother Beverley, currently in the intensive care unit at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in an induced coma.

Her mother is currently fighting for life after a stroke.

Ms Vickers shared the good news on Channel 9‘s Today Show on Monday.

‘The doctors have told me that she may not be able to respond verbally but she can definitely hear what is going on around her,” Ms Vickers said.

“So I just wanted to say: Mum, if you can hear me, I love you, hold on, I’m coming home.”

Rebecca Vickers’ mother is currently in an induced coma in a Sydney hospital. Picture: Supplied via NCA NewsWire

The 42 year-old will still have to undergo two weeks of hotel quarantine before being allowed to visit Beverley.

She said she was remaining optimistic.

“I have just put priorities first getting on a flight, trying to get out, get through this two-week quarantine with a two-year-old and a four-year-old in a hotel room,” she said.

It comes after Ms Vickers made an emotional plea for help on social media this weekend so she could afford the $24,000 plane ticket home.

Her pleas were picked up by the media before airline staff contacted her directly.

“An incredible woman from United Air Australia saw our segment and reached out to me straightaway,” she said.

“She was so apologetic and really wanted to make it right to just do everything possible to get me home. She then contacted United Air America and they tracked me down.”

Ms Vickers said the ordeal had been a ‘terrible nightmare’. Picture: Supplied via NCA NewsWire

She said it was a terrible ‘nightmare’ to be separated from her mother, especially after her father had passed away the year before.

Ms Vickers’ mother was moved from Gosford to Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital with bleeding on the brain and had brain surgery.

She is currently in a stable condition.

“She’s alone, no one is with her. No one can hold her hand,” she told Sky News on the weekend.

“She’s in a coma right now and it’s all touch and go. She’s really hanging on for dear life.”

It comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed the cap on international arrivals by commercial flights would be cut in half to reduce the pressure on hotel quarantine.

A new cap of 3185 people will now be allowed to arrive in Australia from overseas each week.

Ms Vickers said she was desperate to return home to Sydney, but that Covid-inflated flight prices had made the trip for her family almost impossible.