A TEENAGER has described the moment she woke from a four week coma in a London hospital with her last memory being in Poole with a chest infection.

Kacey Carr, 19, from Bournemouth, spent the whole of April in a coma on life support after going to accident and emergency in Poole with a bad chest infection. 

She was diagnosed with pneumonia which was complicated by a condition she suffered with as a baby.

Kacey said: "I was born with a condition called CCAM which is basically small cysts on the lungs. I was signed off at a really young age however they came back. 

"This is what complicated pneumonia and in 24 hours my condition became life threatening.

"I thought that when the doctors told me I had pneumonia things can only get better from now, but things quickly took a bad turn.

"I was really struggling to breathe, the doctors gave me a lot of medication and I was so heavily dosed up that the next thing I remembered was waking up in London. 

"In the days that I forgot, they told my parents that they had no options left. My parents were terrified.

Bournemouth Echo: Kacey with her younger sister and her dadKacey with her younger sister and her dad

"Then the decision was made to get a team down from London to put me on life support."

When the teenager woke from a coma in a London hospital, she had no memory of how she got there and was "confused" and "scared."

Kacey added: "No one really told me straight away what happened, but I knew it was bad.

"One day I randomly asked my mum the question, did I nearly die? And she had to break the news to me, which was a shock to hear because it is such a big fear and it's scary to even think about."

Kacey is now on her way to a full recovery and she is looking forward to getting back to work at The Food Warehouse in Tower Power Park soon.

She is currently trying to raise as much money as she can for the hospitals that helped her. 

Kacey said: "I started a fundraiser as a way to give back to the people who saved my life. Without their quick thinking and decision making, I would not be here today. I want to be able to give back something to these amazing doctors and nurses."

You can donate or find out more here at Kacey's fundraiser here.