Stricken Paisley woman Rebekah Fulton is on the verge of being flown home.
Medics are currently travelling to Thailand, with the hope that 25-year-old Rebekah will be on a flight to Scotland at the beginning of next week.
Rebekah’s dad James Geddes’ met his online fundraising target of £25,000 last night after an incredible gesture from a Paisley Daily Express reader. Buddie John McGlynn contacted the Express after reading the appeal in Wednesday’s paper to help fly Rebekah home.
He generously donated almost £4,000 to help the campaign hit the £25,000 mark.
James, who is at Rebekah’s bedside in Phuket, said he was ‘absolutely overwhelmed’ by John’s actions.
Speaking from Thailand yesterday, James, 48, from Barrhead , said: “People’s generosity will never ever, ever cease to amaze me.
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“For somebody to say, ‘I can see you getting close and I don’t want to make that girl suffer anymore, so I’m prepared to put my hand and my pocket’, and ‘you don’t need to worry anymore’ — there’s no words for that.”
John, who now lives in Monaco, said: “For James to be faced with having his daughter in that condition and trying to raise funds — you’re in the hands of the gods and the generosity of people to try and raise the money.
“It’s a horrendous set of circumstances.
“At times like that, those who can step forward, should.”
Rebekah, a former Glennifer High pupil, has been stranded in a Phuket hospital with what is believed to be encephalitis, which is a viral infection in her brain.
It’s now hoped she will be on home soil in the coming days.
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James said his daughter’s situation is so urgent that medics had to be dispatched yesterday.
He explained: “I have one half of a medical team arriving today from the UK.
“We had to push the go button.
“The medic will be here today, arriving in Phuket at 6pm, and then they’ll send someone out on a flight to arrive tomorrow, because it’s a team of two.
“The advice I’ve had is that we need to get her
moving.
“Thank you very much to everyone, because I wouldn’t be in this position had it not been for everyone.”
