The family of a teenager whose brain and body were damaged by a crippling drug overdose has shared inspiring photographs showing her well on the road to recovery.
Amy Thomson, a college student from Pollok in Glasgow, was rushed to hospital on June 10 after taking what she thought was MDMA.
She spent weeks in a coma and her family feared she would not survive, the Daily Record reported.
A video
of the 16-year-old released last month, in which she thanked the
doctors who saved her life, showed the scale of the damage wreaked by
the drug.
But a picture posted to the Support For Amy Facebook page shows her fighting back.
Although still in a wheelchair, Amy is almost her normal self, and is pictured posing for the camera.
The image is captioned: "Amy today. Looking just like herself. Have a great night Amy."
Her
mother Tricia has now told of her fears that her daughter would never
regain consciousness and warned youngsters not to gamble with their
lives.
She told Closer magazine: “I prayed she would survive and,
at one stage, I was told she had just moments to live. It was
horrendous.
“It was the worst thing I’ve ever been through, I was
terrified. I was shocked she’s taken drugs, but I didn’t feel angry. All
I could think about was losing my child.”
Her aunt Annie has now set up a Gofundme page to help raise money to transport Amy and help her with her future.
She
wrote: "I've decided that my go fund page for 'Sober October' will be
for her and to help with the travel every day, the cost of transport and
additional activity that Amy needs at weekends and for her future. I
suppose a tiny way of help to make things that bit easier.
"I want to also say thanks to Amy, although what has happened to her was through a mistake of her own I couldn't be more proud of her in her recovery."
"I want to also say thanks to Amy, although what has happened to her was through a mistake of her own I couldn't be more proud of her in her recovery."
Amy had hoped to start a hairdressing course this month but has been in hospital since she took the drug with friends.
She
had gone to sleep over at a house in the Knightswood area and was
expected to return home the next day. But Tricia was at her job at a
bingo hall when her partner Jim called to say Amy was in hospital, along
with three other teenage girls.
Medics at the Queen Elizabeth
University Hospital warned Tricia that Amy was critically ill on life
support and her temperature had soared so high it was feared she would
die.
For weeks the mum sat by Amy’s bedside reading stories and singing to her as her condition slowly stabilised.
A couple of weeks after squeezing her mum’s hand, she opened
her eyes and tried to speak. It was a major breakthrough for the family
but it was apparent that there was severe damage to her brain.
Amy is now recovering in a neuro-rehabilitation unit and her speech and movement is improving.
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