A British influencer named Ashley Surcombe is reportedly in a essential situation in a South Korean hospital after being discovered unconscious in her condominium with a black eye and extreme dehydration.
The 29-year-old from Gloucestershire was reportedly found by police on Monday after her nervous dad and mom contacted authorities by way of a pal when she stopped responding to their messages and calls.
Ms Surcombe, in keeping with The Instances, has been dwelling in South Korean capital Seoul for the final 5 years, posting about her time within the nation for her 465,000 followers on Instagram.
In accordance with experiences, she is at present within the intensive care unit (ICU) after struggling a number of organ failure. Her sister, Kat Surcombe, 33, an aerospace engineer, described the ordeal as “surreal”.
Chatting with The Instances, she stated: “I preserve alternating between breaking down and making an attempt to assist my dad and mom. It’s heartbreaking as a result of she’s my little sister, and I simply need her again dwelling.”
The household stated they final spoke with Ms Surcombe on Saturday, when she instructed her dad and mom she “wasn’t feeling very effectively” and appeared “dehydrated and really confused”.
“Initially we had been very involved as a result of she’d lately slipped in her lavatory and hit her head, which is why she bought fairly a nasty bruise on her eye, however that was a number of weeks in the past. The way in which she was behaving, my dad and mom had been understandably involved,” stated her sister.
When Ms Surcombe failed to answer a beforehand scheduled name on Sunday night, dad and mom Karen and Nigel, each 64, reached out to associates in Seoul, who in flip contacted the police.
In accordance with her sister and native information experiences, the police managed to realize entry into her flat, the place they discovered her unconscious and unresponsive on the toilet ground.
“She was discovered unresponsive and unconscious on the ground; she didn’t have any damaged bones, however she was severely dehydrated and has main organ failure,” Kat Surcombe instructed Mail On-line.
Paramedics rushed her to the ICU on Monday, the place she has reportedly gained consciousness, however stays below commentary and present process exams after reporting ache in her head, again, and arms.
“[The doctors] stated that she was severely dehydrated and she or he’s bought organ injury however we don’t know the extent of the organ injury but,” she stated, including that their father was already on his solution to Seoul.
The household has launched a GoFundMe to assist grapple with the escalating medical prices.
Kat Surcombe revealed that Ms Surcombe’s medical health insurance had lately lapsed, forcing their dad and mom to pay a £3,000 deposit for her therapy upfront.
“They’ve needed to put it on a bank card, they don’t have £3,000 kilos simply mendacity round. The potential monetary burden is simply on one other stage. My dad and mom are lately retired. If she spends the week within the ICU that’s about £10,000, they don’t have that sort of cash mendacity round.”
“My dad has already stated they could should promote their home, clearly the precedence is Ashley, however they only don’t know easy methods to cowl the medical payments.”
Based mostly on the knowledge supplied on the GoFundMe web page, ICU care might value as much as £1,500 per day, with further exams and normal hospital stays pushing bills even greater.
“My dad and mom have lately retired, and as a household, we don’t have an abundance of cash to cowl these surprising and overwhelming prices,” Kat Surcombe wrote on the GoFundMe web page.
The household is aiming to lift £50,000 for Ms Surcombe’s therapy, and on the time of writing, had raised £6,840.
