'Very ill' Brit tourist, 25, stranded in Thai hospital as family appeal for help

[ThaiBunny]

1 minute ago, twocatsmac said:

I beg to differ. Many retirees are residing here on tourist visas. 

I quite agree, especially those who are so-called "snowbirds", escaping the northern winter for a few months in Thailand.  An METV makes a great deal more sense for them than an O-A

[steven100]

49 minutes ago, up-country_sinclair said:

I just checked the donation page, and it's almost to 7 now.

wow !   at that rate she'll be home in no time and then she can take care of that nasty little cough.

[SEtonal]

3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

No mention of just what the serious infection is.  I hope the bonnie lassie gets better soon.

Rebekah seems to enjoy displaying her torso.

https://www.instagram.com/weliveanddie/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/rebekah.fulton14

 

 

She is pro-ana (pro-anorexia).  She is not so much as showing off her torso, but rather her pelvic bones.  She puckers her lips to make her cheeks look hollow.  The photo in the link below is something that anorexics crave -- a gap between the thighs even when the knees are pressed together.  

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BilvjqsHsxO/

[Briggsy]

I am cynical. £25,000 is a suspiciously round number. Details are scant.

[wotsdermatter]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"his little girl home".

She does not look like such a "little girl" to me.

'nuf sed.

[Bundooman]

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

Whats more annoying, the Father could easily put that amount on his credit card or get a loan...best wishes to her anyway

I too don't like this method. The father appears to be able to afford the tripvand stay out here, doesn't even attempt to explain what the real problem - infection - is, so many are left wondering:

 

She has been having a wow of a time here in Asia. 

Where did her funds come from - what monies does she have?

Why can't the father be more specific - and if there is money 'left over' - he wants to give it away?

Why does it cost 25,000 pounds? That is one million baht.

Why cant she fly home to Scotland and get treated on the NHS, free.

Is her infection contagious? Does it prevent her being mobile?

 

Lots ofquestions before people start throwingtheir hard earned cash at an "I love me' bimbo.

[up-country_sinclair]

In less than 24 hours, she has been given 7300 GBP by 343 people.

[evadgib]

4 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

I am cynical. £25,000 is a suspiciously round number. Details are scant.

My first thoughts were drugs or botched cosmetic surgery; either might explain the apparent lack of insurance or detail.

[AlexRich]

1 hour ago, Traubert said:

The NHS also loses billons on clipboard carriers, crap IT systems that dont work, bend drugs deals with big pharma, staff absenteeism, needless cosmetic surgery and compensation for killing, crippling and maiming people with poor treatment.

 

But it's ok, it's free, right?

The NHS deals mostly with avoidable health issues that are a result of poor lifestyle choices ... smoking, drugs, obesity, etc. Self inflicted issues. 

 

The fact that a person is treated in the UK, no questions asked, is to my mind a sign of a decent society. If someone arrives as a tourist, is knocked over by a car, I’ve no issue with the country helping that person. Not everyone has insurance and not every insurer plays fair by people ... they constantly look for opportunities to invalidate your claim. 

 

[ravip]

1 hour ago, khwaibah said:

On the fundraising page, dad James said: "Rebekah is in hospital in Phuket with a serious infection and is very ill.

An online fundraiser has been launched to help the woman get back to the UK (Image: Facebook)

Ba... ba... but... they are from the UK? Will they lie? This cant be true...

[nakhon thai]

RGotta be a scam pay your own way useless people

[smedly]

55 minutes ago, Jim P said:

Check out here social media, she has been in Thailand for years, so not a tourist.

already did and reflected that in an earlier post, she managed to stay in SEA for a prolonged period - how she managed that is a mystery since immigration are clamping down, maybe she had an arrangement 

 

fine fit looking girl, hope she fully recovers

 

not sure about the fundme though

Edited April 10, 2019 by smedly

[hobobo]

3 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

I wish her the best of health but why do idiots like her travel without any insurance.?

 

Idiots do and idiots will.

[Happy Grumpy]

HIV?

 

 

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

I wish her the best of health but why do idiots like her travel without any insurance.?

 

Because they're idiots !

[from the home of CC]

56 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

I am cynical. £25,000 is a suspiciously round number. Details are scant.

maybe follow the money to the 'charity' - though I hope that's not the case..

[Jim P]

Someone just donated a nice £2k????

[NCC1701A]

I just set the spare bedroom up as a dungeon but I could convert it to a hospital room by tomorrow it that will help offset costs while she is still in the country.  

[bkk6060]

49 minutes ago, ravip said:

Ba... ba... but... they are from the UK? Will they lie? This cant be true...

Good call.

 

I personally have never seen a chick who looks like that from the UK.

 

Southern California yes, one on every corner.

[faraday]

6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I just set the spare bedroom up as a dungeon but I could convert it to a hospital room by tomorrow it that will help offset costs while she is still in the country.  

A compassionate man. ♥️

 

 

 

[Boycie]

Quoted from the Daily Mail.

 

Now the 25-year-old's desperate father James Geddes, 48, has launched a £25,000 GoFundMe appeal to fly his stricken daughter home fearing she may have meningitis.

 

Ms Fulton was set to take up a manager job at the venue before falling ill.

 

She has been in the country on a non visitor visa but was just days away from getting a worker visa.

Mr Geddes, 48, said: 'About two weeks ago, she developed an ear infection and I told her to go to the doctors.

 

'It then spread into her lymph glands under one of her arms and they became inflamed - it was huge.

 

'She went to the local clinic and they gave her antibiotics which clearly didn't work.'

[from the home of CC]

hard to fly out with a bad ear..

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, wotsdermatter said:

She does not look like such a "little girl" to me.

'nuf sed.

Agree, she'd make a fortune in Pattaya.

[Pravda]

Please consider donating any excess funds to Big Joke

[Lacessit]

27 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I just set the spare bedroom up as a dungeon but I could convert it to a hospital room by tomorrow it that will help offset costs while she is still in the country.  

I thought she was supposed to be the sick one. Any dragons in your dungeon?

[Pravda]

29 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I just set the spare bedroom up as a dungeon but I could convert it to a hospital room by tomorrow it that will help offset costs while she is still in the country.  

 

You may get jammed with something else than IBS this time

[Lacessit]

Her family are not able to mortgage their home(s) to meet the cost? I get more suspicious of the GoFundMe caper every time a story like this comes on TV. The father is 48 years old, and he can't get a loan in the UK?

[Letseng]

High time to make travel insurance compulsory just like it is for every Thai applying for a Schengen visa.

 

When I read these never ending appeals for money by parents I wonder how it is possible that no parent has the money to help the kid? Couldn't they get a loan from the bank? Or is it taken for granted that the community will foot the bill?

[yogi100]

4 hours ago, mercman24 said:

ok i dont know if she has insurance or not, but for a young person health/travel insurance is very cheap, even when i was 65, (long time ago he he) my insurance was £30 for one month (1500 baht at the time,) so there is no excuse at all with flights costing £450/500, plus spends plus accommodation. its cheap price to pay. my mate came to see me, his ins not much (him 68), caught denghi fever, bill for 2 days, 40,00 baht, but got it back within one week on return to the uk

I suffered from Dengue Fever for three weeks in early December last year. I was treated at a clinic in Soi Bhukaow in  Pattaya then as an out patient on two separate occasions at the Pattaya City hospital. Total cost just under 3,000 baht. That included blood tests, examinations, some pills and a bag of vitamin drink powders similar to Berocca.

 

For me it was like having flu but it lasts a lot longer and makes you feel weak, awful and tired all the time. There is not much you can do about it just like the flu except take vitamin supplements and wait it out as you would the flu.

 

However they do say it kills 200,000 people every year mainly in the Indian sub continent. There is no cure for it and there is no tablet nor vaccine that can prevent it. From what I've read my case was not as bad as it could have been.

 

I got it from a mosquito bite while I was in Pattaya, not out in the boondocks. The hospital sent a pest control fellow round who sprayed my room a couple of times and I had to make myself scarce for the next hour. There was no charge for this so it shows the authorities are concerned about it affecting tourism as very little in the LOS is ever free.

 

It could be that this girl has a bad case of Dengue Fever.

[Curmudgeon1]

Serious.... this GoFundMe is another "crying wolf". This woman who has the obvious privileges of winning the beauty sweepstakes needs your monies because she skipped the insurance. Her father cannot come up with 25k?.... get a loan....a second mortgage.... don't be begging until you've exhausted your means before looking to others.