Brit, 20, rushed to hospital for emergency brain surgery after falling ill in Spain

A woman who was rushed to hospital for emergency brain surgery when she fell ill in Spain could be stuck abroad for months before she can come home. Millie Jackson went on holiday with her boyfriend Cameron West in Malaga at the start of June.

She was due to have a brain tumour removed in July but was given the go-ahead by medics to jet off abroad ahead of her planned surgery. But she became unwell in Spain and was rushed to hospital.

The nursery worker, 20, has now been told she has to stay in Spain while she recovers. Medics are even thinking about carrying out a second operation.

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Millie, from Ystrad Rhondda, Wales, lives with a rare genetic condition called von Hippel-Lindau disease. It causes benign cysts and tumours to grow in parts of the body, WalesOnline reports.

The disease runs in her family, with Millie's mum and uncle also diagnosed with the same condition. Millie was diagnosed with the condition aged six and has routine MRIs.

Medics in Wales were keen to remove one tumour from her brain this summer as it had grown in size. Millie wanted to go on holiday before her operation and was told she was fit to fly.

But she was rushed to hospital in Spain on June 13. Her mum Suzy Jackson, 42, said: "They've done her scans and they said she's not safe to fly because she was dizzy, being sick, she couldn't walk.

"She was really, really ill with it. So they've done the emergency brain surgery to remove the tumour on the cerebellum." The cerebellum is the part of the brain which controls motor movement and balance control.

Suzy - originally from Newcastle - added: "She woke up all right. The tumour was removed. Everything was all right the Monday afternoon [when she had the surgery].

"On the Tuesday, when her partner had gone to the hospital, he was told she was in critical care, took a turn for the worse, she had swelling on the brain and a build-up of fluid."

Millie has been under sedation and is on a high dose of antibiotics to fight an infection that she developed. The plan is for a second surgery to drain the fluid build-up on her brain once the course of antibiotics is complete.

Suzy flew to Spain to be with her daughter. But she has since had to return home as she is also set to have a tumour removed from the same part of her brain.

Suzy was able to see Millie awake before she flew home but her daughter'ss throat was too swollen to be able to speak. Millie has had a tracheostomy - an opening in the neck where air can flow directly into the windpipe

Suzy said: "When I got there they had managed to wake her up. She can't talk because of the swelling in her mouth but she was mouthing things.

"She was trying to speak sign language because she works in a school and she knows sign language but we don't speak sign. So I could see the frustration on her face. But she could mouth 'I love you' and that she was in a lot of pain."

Millie has been put in her own room on the intensive care ward as she will likely be there for the foreseeable while she recovers. Millie's boyfriend Cameron plans to stay in Spain to be close to his partner.

Her medical care is being covered by the UK Global Health Insurance Card. But loved ones have also set up a GoFundMe to support the costs for Cameron to stay by her side until she is able to fly home.

Any extra cash will also cover the cost of getting Millie home and any support she may need afterwards.