‘This Dubai holiday was purported to loosen up me before chemo but its become a nightmare’ | News UK

A mother-of-one from Plymouth, with stage three lung cancer, has spoken of her fear of getting desperately sick whilst stranded as suicide drones rained down on Dubai.

‘I even have terrible chest pain probably brought on by the cancer and the stress of being stuck distant from house is making my symptoms worse,’ Linzi Stone told the Metro.

‘I feel like my health is suddenly getting worse and I’m terrified about what may occur if I want urgent medical care.’

The 47-year-old, who’s staying on the Palm Atlantis hotel together with her husband Paul and their eleven-year-old daughter Summer, was as a consequence of fly home last Sunday after every week’s holiday. As an alternative, after their flight was cancelled, they’ve been left at midnight about after they can return home.

‘We flew Virgin Airways and the lack of knowledge has been bad so we’ve no idea when we will get out of here,’ she added.

‘It doesn’t help that the hotel are still charging us £500 a day to be here.’

Having discovered a lump on her collar bone in January, Mrs Stone was advised by her doctor to have a biopsy which led to the hospital diagnosing her with a tumour on the lung. ‘The news absolutely floored me because it is a mutation that may effect young women and non-smokers and up until then I used to be fit and healthy.

‘This holiday was meant to be a soothing break ahead of starting chemotherapy which was as a consequence of happen on Friday. As an alternative, it has become a nightmare.’

It was as they were within the hotel swimming pool on Saturday that the family were first alerted to the signs that something was flawed.

‘I didn’t understand at first what was happening,’ explained Mrs Stone.

‘I suddenly became absolutely terrified as friends from home were texting me to ask if I used to be okay and just at that moment a drone got intercepted above our heads and all of us panicked and ran inside.

‘We then heard throughout the day and night booms and planes above our head and alerts coming in on our phones.’

Since then, the family haven’t been allowed to enterprise removed from the hotel pool area, with restrictions in place to remain nearby.

‘It’s all been surreal and scary and the worst part is the lack of knowledge,’ added Mrs Stone.

‘I even have informed the UK embassy and our airline about my urgent medical needs and there was no response from either so I’m at a loss what to do next. It’s an absolute mess.

‘I want to have chemotherapy urgently and am so scared about going downhill and getting very sick out here.’

Tens of 1000’s of airline passengers are stranded by the Iran war that has spread across the Gulf region, but some wealthy travellers are getting out – by paying large sums for luxury flights to Europe via airports which can be secure from Iranian drone and missile attacks.

Demand for charter flights has skyrocketed, with some people paying as much as £175,000 after major airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, Qatar, were closed after the beginning of the conflict last weekend.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said around 130,000 British nationals have registered their presence within the Middle East.

One mother Harriet Aldridge, who recently moved to Dubai, luckily evaded a drone strike on her neigbour’s constructing.

She told Metro: ‘It’s been a really surreal 36 hours.

‘So we live in an apartment inside Town square, but we didn’t feel secure watching missiles being intercepted directly above our constructing.

‘Luckily a friend who had fled for Fujairah kindly offered us her house instead.

‘Which was a great thing we did – as only a number of hours later, the apartment block next to ours got hit by a drone that did not detonate. Which was very scary.

‘We even have friends staying with us who got here here on holiday for 4 nights without their children and are desperately waiting to listen to after they can fly back to their children.

‘We’ve stayed home and inside monitoring the explosions and fortuitously today we’ve only experienced missiles this morning, so it’s feeling much calmer now.

She added on how she has been keeping busy while staying at home. ‘To be honest, it’s felt lots like lockdown – we’ve been watching movies, playing games and a number of FaceTiming our families within the UK.

‘Luckily, my daughter is simply three so we told her the bangs were Mr Bull from Peppa Pig, digging up the road and she or he seemed joyful enough with that explanation.’

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