Mum forced to spend $8,000 a day to keep her daughter alive in hospital
A desperate mum is being forced to spend $8,000 (£4,500) a day just to keep her seven-week-old daughter alive.
Honey Ahimsa's baby girl Lucky caught a severe bacterial infection while in Bali.
What started out as a seemingly innocent cough developed and Lucky was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning after she started gasping for air.
Lucky was placed on a ventilator as the infection made it hard for her to breathe.
Mum Honey is desperate to get her daughter back to Australia especially as her current care is costing $8,000 a day.
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Baby Lucky's first symptoms was a cough which Honey thought could have just been a common cold.
Lucky is in a hospital in Bali (7 News)Honey told Australian breakfast-show Sunrise: "I just tried to give her a lot of sleep, and that night she got worse.
"The next day she wouldn't take my milk, her eyes started rolling back. I took her clothes off and I looked at her lungs and you could see them struggling.
"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."
Honey with fiance Pan and daughter Lucky (7 News)The distraught mum and her fiance Pan were told there was a 50 per cent chance Lucky wouldn't make it.
The parents told Sunrise the hospital Lucky is currently in doesn't have the right medical equipment or specialists to treat her.
And the cost of flying her back to Australia is a staggering $107,000.
Honey said: "I wish that I could just teleport her home to Australia and that she could just be in the best hospital.
Baby Lucky before she fell ill (7 News)"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."
Lucky will have to stay in hospital until she is stable enough to fly.
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Friends of the family are helping care for Honey's other son Hendrix while everyone tries to get the money together to fly Lucky home to Australia.
Honey described Lucky as the most beautiful, gentle little girl.
She wrote: "There's nothing worse than a doctor telling you your baby isn't going to make it.
"My girl is hanging on though. I'm so proud of her."
A GoFundMe setup on behalf of the family has raised $175,000 so far as of Friday February 10.
A friend of the family, Bailey Scarlett, told Daily Mail they are struggling to find space in the best hospital for Lucky.
Honey Ahimsa is distraught (7 News)She said: "We've been trying to find outside consultants ourselves and send all her scans and X-rays, medical notes and try to get medical opinion outside because we can't actually have the one that we need in Bali at the moment.
"The other hospital with what we need is full and their insulator for a seven-week-old baby is broken. Even if we could get a room, they don't actually have the facilities to ventilate her.
"We just have the equipment to keep her alive, but not to actually potentially get her better.
"So we're really stuck in a pretty hard place at the moment."
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