MOLLY Siswick, daughter of Saundersfoot’s Kate Preston ran a half marathon on Sunday, June 6 - her first! She has already raised over £1,500 for the ICU at Glangwili after her mum made a ‘miracle’ recovery in their care.

“They saved my life and we’re forever grateful,” Kate says.

In March of this year, Kate went to the doctor with a chest infection. When the doctor checked her oxygen levels, they were low, so he called for an ambulance to take Kate to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest. She spent two days in Withybush before being transferred to Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen. Kate had fluid on her lungs which needed to be drained.

But things kept going from bad to worse:

“When I got there I went from having a chest infection to pneumonia to sepsis.”

Kate was put to sleep (sedated) but her condition continued to deteriorate. Her main organs began to fail.

At 2.30am on the Saturday morning, the doctor at the hospital rang Kate’s mother to break the devastating news to her and her family that Kate wasn’t going to make it.

Then something like a miracle happened.

A couple of days later, Kate’s condition began to improve. She started breathing for herself, and after 10 days they decided to wake her up.

“I came round, totally confused and wondering what on earth had happened to me,” Kate remembers.

“I am home now, slowly but surely recovering but it’s going to take time.”

On her fundraising page, Molly, a former Ysgol Greenhill Tenby student, praises the staff at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit and shares what it means to the family to see her mother recovering in their care:

“As many of you know, the Intensive Care Unit in Glangwili hospital has recently saved my mother’s life, providing her children and parents, close family and friends more time to make memories and have their loved one close.

“Without the 24/7 care and 110% effort from all the incredible staff, we’d have never been able to have our Kate home.”

Before Molly’s run, Kate said: “I am making a slow recovery and have lots of support from family and friends during my hospital stay and my return home.

“We all can’t thank the staff at Glangwili enough for everything they’ve done to save my life and the support they gave to me, my family and friends whilst I was in hospital.

“My children, Molly and Cody have been so strong through all this and I am so proud of them both. Molly has done a lot for charities in her life - from making loom bands for Cancer Research to a sponsored walk from Tenby to Wiseman’s Bridge for Water Aid. She never fails to amaze me and is now running her first half marathon… she has raised £1,300 so far and the total is still growing!”

She told us the Glangwili ICU team are “overwhelmed” at the amount raised so far.

Head to Molly’s fundraising page, www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/molly-siswick to add your support.