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The family of a four-year-old Australian girl left fighting for life after a shock accident in Bali have issued a heartwarming update.
Marigold Jessie McCallum had been on a family holiday on the Indonesian island, when she fell from a treehouse at their villa and fractured her skull.
The incident immediately caused bleeding on the brain and she was rushed to hospital to undergo emergency surgery.
The surgeries in Bali helped alleviate the pressure from her brain, and she was then evacuated back to Adelaide.
Her aunt Sophie McInnerney said Marigold is now in intensive care at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide.
‘Goldie isn’t a stranger to hospitals … it’s where she spent the first 100 days of her life after she was born at just 25 weeks,’ Ms McInnerney wrote on a fundraising page for the family.
‘Goldie has an incredible fighting (and feisty) spirit and is the bravest little soul we know, but she has a long road ahead to recovery.
‘Lucky for Goldie, she has the most doting and dedicated parents in Nick and Carly who will be there holding her hand the whole way.’
Four-year-old Marigold Jessie McCallum has been rushed home to Australia after a fall from a Balinese tree house caused a brain bleed. Pictured with dad Nick, who is vice-president of the BMW Lions in South Australia’s Northern Areas Football Association.
She was rushed back from Bali to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide (pictured)
The GoFundMe page has raised more than $62,000 for the four-year-old.
‘This experience has and will continue to take its toll on Nick and Carly on so many levels and they are going to need a lot of love and support to get through this,’ the page read.
The Adelaide Crows AFL club are among those to have supported ‘Goldie’.
The club donated a signed guernsey to the family’s local football club, the Booleroo Melrose Wilmington (BMW) Lions, who play in the Northern Areas Football Association. Her dad Nick is vice-president of the club.
‘The (Booleroo Melrose Wilmington Lions Football Club) family will do whatever we can to support Nick, Carly, Billie and Goldie and wrap our arms around them at this time,’ a post from the club read on Instagram.
Their local netball association also extended its support on Facebook.
‘The netball community extends its deepest support to Carly and Nick McCallum following a tragic accident to their daughter during a family holiday in Bali,’ a post from the Northern Areas Netball Association read.
‘Carly has always been a proud supporter of netball in our region and her Mum Millie Foulis, a NANA Life Member.’
A fundraiser for the young girl has raised more than $62,000 as local sporting groups extended their support (above, one of Marigold’s bears with her in hospital)
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