A mother who was pictured floating face down in the sea after suffering a life-threatening brain haemorrhage on a family holiday has flown back to Britain. Katy Head, 39, was snorkelling in the Aegean Sea off the coast of the Greek island of Kos when she collapsed in front of her husband Craig, 38, and eight-year-old son Leighton. Craig managed to drag her on board a boat and she was rushed to hospital where she underwent a five-hour operation on her brain on October 21. Doctors said Katy suffered a brain aneurysm which ruptured and told her husband it wasn’t clear whether she would survive or be left disabled. But her condition slowly improved after staying in an Athens hospital for several weeks and Katy was flown back to Britain this weekend. Her treatment will now continue at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham or the Royal Derby Hospital. Speaking before they set off from Greece, Craig said: ‘Katy has been declared fit to fly. Katy and the doctor will travel in the comfort of business class but I will get economy. Katy, who is a play leader at a school, was pictured floating face-down in the sea after her collapse when someone on the boat thought she was snorkelling. After being rushed to the store, she was taken to a hospital in Kos before being transferred to Athens by air ambulance. Doctors had to fit an emergency drain to release the pressure from her brain and release some of the blood. Craig, who works for a Nottingham firm of solicitors, said he wanted to praise the Greek people who he described as ‘the best people I have ever met in the world’. The dad, who lives with Katy and Leighton in Derby, added: ‘Their hospitality is second to none. The downside is their economy is in crisis and the public services suffer. An online fund-raising page set up to pay for the costs of flights to send the family home and pay for care has raised £14,000 in just four weeks. | Metro News
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