The dad of stranded Paisley woman Rebekah Fulton fears he is in a race against time to get her home from Thailand.
James Geddes is at 25-year-old’s Rebekah’s side in a Phuket hospital where she is battling against a serious infection, which may be meningitis or encephalitis.
As doctors struggle to diagnose the former Gleniffer High pupil, 48-year-old dad James, from Barrhead, fears she may develop a brain abscess and has been been warned to fly her back to Scotland as soon as possible.
Desperate dad of Scots woman ill in Thailand feels 'helpless' as doctors struggle to diagnose her
However, having been advised a medical flight home could cost upwards of £60,000, the desperate dad needs more people to come forward and donate to her online fundraiser.
James revealed Rebekah is refusing to let go of his hand.
He said: “Rebekah does not allow me even to take my eyes away from her gaze. She’s holding my hands constantly - Rebekah and I have a thing about pinky promise, and she won’t let go of my hands.
“They don’t know her condition.
“There’s an English guy at the private hospital, translating for me, and he said to me: ‘The best thing you can do is really push, push, push, get that GoFundMe and get your daughter home.
“Failing that the next best thing is that you need to get her to the specialist hospital in Bangkok’.
“Nobody on Phuket Island has facilities to do the neurosurgery to release pressure on her brain, should we need it in the next wee while.
Dad of 'very ill' Paisley woman stranded in Thailand begs 'help bring my little girl home'
“To get her home tomorrow, you’re talking £60,000, £70,000. I have no doubt that by keeping this going - there’s a massive amount of fundraising going on in Barrhead just now - I’m confident given three or four weeks, I’ll get to that.
“But I don’t have three or four weeks.
“This is just a never-ending nightmare.”
Meanwhile, MP for East Renfrewshire, Paul Masterton, has written to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to provide consular support, Tweeting: “We need to get her home”.
* To help Rebekah and James donate at https://www.gofundme.com/get-rebekah-home.
