A mum who kept her blood tests to herself for 'fear of worrying her hubby' is stranded on holiday in Kenya with liver failure - as her insurance won't cover the £80,000 bills. Lee Flint and her husband Jack Flint flew out to Kenya on September 16 to continue their life-long charity work there, as well as to celebrate Jack's cancer-free diagnosis. A few weeks after arriving in the East African country, the 77-year-old was found unresponsive in her bed and was rushed to the Mombasa Intensive Care Unit.
Doctors told Jack that Lee had suffered grade four kidney and liver failure and that her organs were shutting down and she remains in a critical condition with internal bleeding and blood poisoning. The solar engineer has now set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money (Image: Kennedy News and Media) Despite the couple taking out insurance cover before setting off to Kenya, they are unable to claim it as Lee did not declare any pre-existing conditions. Lee's son Jamie Flint, 52, said that his mum had gone to the doctor's for a blood test and scan before the trip, but no one knew about it until she fell ill in Kenya.
Jamie believes his mum may have not mentioned her blood tests to her husband because she didn't want to worry Jack as he had been going through chemotherapy and has only just been given the all-clear from his cancer battle. However it meant that when Jack completed the holiday insurance forms, he was not aware of the tests - which have voided her insurance. The solar .
