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A terrified Australian mother struggling to save her newborn baby after it caught an insect in Bali reveals the staggering cost of keeping little Lucky alive: ‘I wish I could teleport her to Australia’
An Australian mother is spending $8,000 a day to keep her seven-week-old daughter Lucky alive after she contracted a serious bacterial infection in Bali.
Honey Ahimsa was in tears as she spoke about Lucky’s urgent need to return to Australia for life-saving treatment.
Lucky was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning after she suffered respiratory distress and ran out of air.
She was placed on a ventilator to help her breathe after the bacterial infection severely affected her lungs.
“I wish I could teleport her home to Australia and she could be in the best hospital,” a distraught Ahimsa told Sunrise on Friday.
Lucky is fighting for his life in a Bali hospital due to a serious infection in his lungs
‘And they had all the medicines she needs and could do the tests she needed to find out what she needed. 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 that when her baby started coughing, she thought he might have had a cold.
“I just tried to make him really sleepy, and that night it got worse,” he said.
‘The next day she didn’t drink my milk, her eyes started rolling back. I took her clothes off and looked into her lungs and you could see them fighting.
Honey Ahimsa was in tears as she spoke about her baby Lucky’s urgent need to return to Australia for life-saving treatment.
“On the way to the emergency she started to get really cold and she closed her eyes and I thought I had lost her at that point because she was so cold.”
Doctors told Ms. Ahimsa and her fiancé Pan that their baby may not survive and at best has a 50-50 chance of survival.
The hospital he is currently in does not have the right medical team or specialists to treat little Lucky.
Flying Lucky from Bali to Singapore in an air ambulance would cost her parents a staggering $90,000, while the frantic run to Perth would set them back $65,000.
Honey Ahimsa and her fiancé Pan hope that their baby can be airlifted to Australia for the best care she urgently needs.
Lucky needs to be stable before he can fly to Australia and will remain in hospital until he is no longer in critical condition.
The friends are now scrambling to help care for Ms Ahimsa’s son, Hendrix, while raising the funds to bring Lucky to Australia for the best care.
They are also desperately looking for a specialist doctor as the hospital where Lucky is currently fighting for his life does not have specialist pediatric pulmonology consultants.
Ms Ahimsa provided an update on her daughter’s condition early Thursday morning after a harrowing 24 hours and urged everyone to keep Lucky in their prayers.
She described Lucky as the most beautiful and gentle girl and said that the world needs to meet her.
“There is nothing worse than a doctor telling you that your baby will not survive,” she wrote.
‘My girl is holding up though. I’m very proud of her.’
Ms. Ahimsa also thanked everyone who contributed to a GoFundMe which has raised over $125,000 as of Friday morning.
A family friend, Bailey Scarlett, previously told Daily Mail Australia that the specialist team Lucky needs is at another hospital, but there are no free beds.
“We’ve been trying to find outside consultants ourselves and send all their scans and X-rays, medical notes and trying to get an outside medical opinion because we can’t really have the one we need in Bali at the moment,” Ms Scarlett said. .
‘The other hospital with what we need is full and its insulation for a seven-week-old baby is broken. Even if we could get a room, they don’t actually have the facilities to air it out.
“We only have the equipment to keep her alive, not to potentially improve her.”
“So we’re really stuck in a pretty tough place right now.”
Seven-week-old Lucky (pictured in hospital) has been given a 50 percent chance of survival.