A BRIT widow is fighting for her life in Turkey in an induced coma – and her family are desperate to get her home.
Grieving Cerys Rees, 34, went to Antalya, Turkey, intending to scatter her husband’s ashes, but was hospitalized due to a seizure.
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Cerys, from Pontypridd, South Wales, lost her husband Gareth earlier this year and has vowed to scatter his ashes everywhere she visits.
After suffering the seizure, concerned friends started a fundraiser to help pay for treatment so she could return home.
Some even desperately flew to be with her in hospital, but the Welsh widow became even more ill and is now on a life support machine.
Her sister, Rhianna Boundford, said: “Friends arrived in Turkey and she was chatting a bit yesterday – they came back at 7pm and discovered she was intubated and in a coma.
She described how Cerys suffered horrifically collapsed veins and was sedated to prevent a life-threatening seizure.
Rhianna continued: “We as a family are absolutely petrified for her life and scared of losing her in Turkey if we don’t get her back.
“Things can’t get any worse. We just want her home in the hope that Heath Hospital ICU can help her.”
Cerys has dealt with horrible circumstances in recent years.
Her husband Gareth died in January this year, and she had already tragically lost her brother in 2019 and her father in 2020.
Her family are now aiming to raise £38,000 to fly Cerys home in a private air ambulance.
Cerys and her husband were hit by a drunk driver in October 2022, causing her to have a seizure.
She is also being treated for lupus at Baskent University Hospital in Türkiye.
Rhianna said: “I think the condition is super rare.
“I asked and asked for specialized help, but they say that today there are no specialized hospitals – we are petrified, obviously, and we have a fight with the insurance company.
“I’ve been with them to see if they can help in any way.”
She said the family is in a battle with their insurance company as they claim Cerys failed to disclose a pre-existing diagnosis of epilepsy.
But Cerys’ family denies the claim and says she was never diagnosed with it.
Rhianna said: “The hospital is doing the best it can and is now helping Cerys’ friends who are there to organize an air ambulance, but we simply don’t have enough funds at the moment.
“I can’t thank the public enough for the funds they have already donated. I just hope we can increase publicity about the seriousness of your illness.
“Cerys’s mother and I are living in fear, struggling to cope but trying to do as much as we can.”
The family has organized several events to help finance travel costs, as well as starting a fundraising page.
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