Gut-wrenching moment a terrified Aussie mum fighting to keep her newborn girl Lucky alive after the infant caught a bug in Bali begs for help: ‘I wish I could just teleport her home to Australia’
An Australian mother is spending $8,000 a day to keep her seven-week-old daughter Lucky alive after she caught a severe bacterial infection in Bali.
Honey Ahimsa was in tears as she opened up about Lucky’s urgent need to return to Australia to receive life-saving treatment.
Lucky was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning after she went into respiratory distress and was left gasping for air.
She was placed on a ventilator to help her breathe after the bacterial infection took a serious toll on her lungs.
‘I wish that I could just teleport her home to Australia and that she could just be in the best hospital,’ a distraught Ms Ahimsa told Sunrise on Friday.
Lucky is fighting for life in a Bali hospital due to a severe infection on her lungs
‘And they had all the medicine she needs and they could do the tests she needs so they could find out what she needs. I’m sorry I haven’t slept in days.’
The mother tearfully detailed the shocking moment she thought she had lost Lucky.
Ms Ahimsa said when her baby started coughing, she believed she may have just had a cold.
‘I just tried to give her a lot of sleep, and that night she got worse,’ she said.
‘The next day she wouldn’t take my milk, her eyes started rolling back. I took her clothes off and I looked in her lungs and you could see them struggling.
Honey Ahimsa was in tears as she opened up about her baby Lucky’s urgent need to return to Australia to receive life-saving treatment
‘On the way to emergency she started to go really cold and she closed her eyes and I thought I lost her in that moment because she was so cold.’
Doctors told Ms Ahimsa and her fiance Pan their baby girl may not make it and has a 50 per cent chance of survival at best.
The hospital she is currently in doesn’t have the right medical equipment or specialists to treat little Lucky.
Flying Lucky from Bali to Singapore on an air ambulance would cost her parents a staggering $90,000 while the frantic dash to Perth will set them back $65,000.
Honey Ahimsa and her fiance Pan hope they baby girl can be airlifted to Australia to get the best care she urgently needs
Lucky needs to be stable before she can fly to Australia and will remain in hospital until she is no longer in a critical condition.
Friends are now scrambling to help care for Ms Ahimsa’s son Hendrix while scraping the funds together to fly Lucky to Australia to receive the best care.
They are also desperately searching for a specialist doctor as the hospital where Lucky is currently fighting for life doesn’t have paediatric pulmonary specialist consultants.
Ms Ahimsa provided an update on her daughter’s condition early Thursday after a harrowing 24 hours as she urged everyone to keep Lucky in their prayers.
She described Lucky as the most beautiful, gentle little girl and said the world needs to know her.
‘There’s nothing worse than a doctor telling you your baby isn’t going to make it,’ she wrote.
‘My girl is hanging on though. I’m so proud of her.’
Ms Ahimsa also thanked everyone who contributed to an GoFundMe which has raised more than $125,000 as of Friday morning.
Seven-week-old Lucky (pictured in hospital) has been given a 50 per cent chance of survival
