Stephenie was so ill with cerebral malaria, she had the last rites three times. Then she woke up

The 50-year-old technology entrepreneur, now a patient at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney, has survived cerebral malaria and septic shock.

Dr Turner said Ms Rodriguez would have died if she had boarded the flight. Instead she was taken to Massachussetts General, the largest of the Harvard teaching hospitals. Dr Turner said Ms Rodriguez spent more than a week in a coma. The doctors treated the malaria but her body responded by going into septic shock. She was on the highest level of renal dialysis and she almost died even while hooked up to life support because her blood pressure was too low for the heart to pump.Family and friends rallied to her bedside but the treating doctors said she would not make it. Ms Rodriguez was later told she had the last rites administered three times.

The first sign that Ms Rodriguez would recover was when she emerged from her coma to ask for the tubes to be removed from her face.She is relieved she had good travel insurance to cover her medical bills, though notes the insurer was "quite aggressive" in pushing for repatriation back to Australia. She had to unplug the phone from the wall because they were calling her daily rather than talking to her doctors.

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