A Bradford grandmother who underwent life-saving brain surgery in Tokyo has been reunited with her family.

Janet Rylance was returning from a visit to relatives in Australia when she was taken ill during a stop in Tokyo.

Doctors discovered she had three blood clots on her brain, one of which had burst, and she underwent a major operation.

The 55-year-old mother of six is now being looked after in Bradford's St Luke's Hospital after an emergency flight home with her daughter Dawn Blamires. Today Mrs Blamires, of Speeton Avenue, Horton Bank Top, said her mother was out of danger but was still ill.

"We flew her home on Friday night and took her straight to the hospital," she said.

"She is very confused and she can't speak properly but she is not doing too badly."

The first Mrs Rylance's family knew of her illness was when the Tokyo hospital faxed a request asking for permission to carry out surgery.

The family managed to collect enough cash to send Mrs Rylance's eldest daughter Susan to the hospital.

Mrs Blamires flew out last week and travelled back with her mother and a doctor sent from London by the insurance company which arranged the repatriation.

She said she had to look after her mother in the Tokyo hospital, which had only one staff member who spoke English.

"Out there they rely on the family to look after a patient," she said. "They do what they think they ought to do in terms of treatment and medication but they leave the rest to you." She said her mother, who lives in Wibsey, was unable to look after herself.

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