A former model and racing driver has issued an urgent health warning to Australians after her daughter suffered a fatal brain infection.
Mount Gambier councillor Kate Amoroso’s 30-year-old daughter Tiana was left fighting for her life after contracting a serious meningitis infection caused by meningococcus B a week ago.
Tiana was rushed to the hospital where… He was immediately put into a coma and subjected to treatment. antibiotics to ‘fight the infection of a lifetime’.
He has since spent four days in intensive care.
A week later, the South Australian councillor revealed that her daughter was “finally awake and talking” but “a long way from a full recovery”.
The mother of three used her daughter’s ordeal as a timely reminder for Australians to be wary of headaches and extreme fevers.
“Tiana was working the morning she got sick and that same night she was put to sleep in the ICU; that’s how quickly the meningococcus took over her body,” she wrote.
‘If it wasn’t for South West Healthcare’s quick response to act immediately, she might not be with us.
Tiana, 30, (pictured left with her mother Councilwoman Amoroso, right), had been working in the morning but was in the ICU fighting for her life that same night.
Ms Amoroso said her daughter Tiana (pictured) is now speaking but is “far from fully recovered”.
‘I know you all love her very much and are very worried about her, but please try to refrain from communicating with her and definitely give her space by not visiting her right now while she recovers as she needs as little stimulation as possible right now.
There will be plenty of time to visit and check on her once she is home and rested, but at this point we are still not quite sure when that will be.
He added that Tiana “was getting better every day.”
The councillor spoke candidly in 2015 about how her ice addiction two and a half years earlier nearly destroyed her life.
The former racing driver has spoken openly about her troubled past and how she began experimenting with drugs when she was 20.
The Mount Gambier councillor (pictured) warned others to go to the emergency room immediately if they experience extreme headaches and fever.
Tiana’s severe meningitis infection in the brain was caused by meningococcus B (pictured)
After marrying a billionaire and moving to the Gold Coast, she turned to drugs in the late 2000s when she suffered an injury.
When Ms Amoroso was 41, she barricaded herself in her Mount Gambier home, forcing police to block off her street while they coaxed her out and arrested her.
She said The Adelaide Advertiser She had gone crazy after injecting herself with ice for eight days, taking other medications and not sleeping.
Ms Amoroso said that around the time of the incident, she had been using about $2,000 worth of ice each week.
She is now a staunch anti-drug activist, has two adult daughters and a 12-year-old son and has vowed to rebuild her life after this affected her relationship with her youngest son.
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