Family's desperate plea for funds as British father, 51, left fighting for life ... trends now
A British family has issued a desperate plea for funds as the father has been left fighting for his life and now needs a second brain surgery.
Marlon McCormack, 51, suffered a bleed on the brain and is currently in an induced coma while his family plead for donations on GoFundMe to help urgently raise funds to pay his medical bills in the hospital in Turkey.
His daughter, Renelle McCormack, 27, was taking family pictures with her younger sister, her father and his girlfriend just the night before and woke up to the terrible news last Thursday that her dad was having a stroke.
Since then, he had to undergo surgery 'as 50 per cent of his brain is bleeding', according to his daughter Renelle.
She told MailOnline: 'He went to sleep and hasn't woken up since. Our whole lives were just turned upside down overnight.'
The family has been asked to fork out £24,000 for the first surgery and £1,500 for every day Marlon has to stay in the ICU as they do not have travel insurance - and with the father-of-two now needing another surgery, the hospital bills are stacking up even more.
Marlon McCormack, 51, suffered a bleed on the brain and is currently in an induced coma. He is pictured the night before he fell ill with his daughter Renelle (right) and her 16-year-old sister (left)
Marlon (left) said he fell while at the gym on holiday in Turkey, before losing feeling in his body
'He's been in a coma for seven days and he needs another brain surgery in a week, followed by four weeks of recovery in the ICU which is going to be around £80,000 in total,' Renelle said.
She added that the family was looking into medical repatriation, whether it be by plane or by boat, to get Marlon back to the UK - which could set them back another £40,000.
Despite having already raised nearly £23,000, this only covers the first surgery and not any of Marlon's hospital stay, let alone the second surgery and the repatriation.
Renelle said: 'Now we're back to square one again [with the fundraiser], because we're already gonna have to pay the hospital £19,000 for his first brain surgery.
'I've heard that [the hospital] is not just gonna let him die if we can't afford it, but I don't know if
