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Wirral mum’s loved ones say ‘let’s get her home to her babies’ after Gran Canaria coma

Wirral mum’s loved ones say ‘let’s get her home to her babies’ after Gran Canaria coma

The loved ones of a mum in a coma in the Canary Islands have urged her to wake up so she can get back home to her children. Emily Casey, 34 and of Rock Ferry, was taken ill just three days after she had flown out to Gran Canaria with her husband Jamie Casey and their five children. Emily, who had recently recovered from pneumonia, had struggled to breathe and was rushed to hospital where an emergency CT scan was done. They were told the pneumonia had returned and one of her lungs was “full of fluid”, which would need to be drained. Jamie returned to the family’s hotel with the children, but when he returned to hospital the following day he devastatingly found his wife was in an induced coma on a life support machine. After taking the children back to England he returned to the Spanish island but was told on Saturday how his wife’s progress had “gone backwards”. Scans revealed pneumonia has “taken over her lungs again” and sepsis is now in …